Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven enemy planes shot down is a good bag in any flyer's war (five is the minimum for designation as an ace), but Jap planes were being knocked off so rapidly by the U.S. Air Forces in the Solomons that until this week neither the Army the Navy nor his own Marine Corps knew exactly whether Captain Joe Foss had tallied 22 or 29 of the 450-plus destroyed around Guadalcanal. This week at Pearl Harbor Admiral Nimitz fixed Foss' score at 22 (in six weeks' flying), which made him officially top man among U.S. combat...
...later seasons Ureli Corelli Hill bankrupted himself in the California gold rush, returned to borrow the Philharmonic's sinking fund, in the process nearly sank the orchestra. At 70 he retired from music to take a flyer as a bit-part actor in legitimate drama. A disastrous venture in New Jersey real estate catapulted him back into Manhattan concert managing. In 1875 Ureli Corelli Hill took an overdose of morphine. Beside his body, police discovered a note. "Ha, ha!" it read, "I go, the sooner the better...
...darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs and champagne. She became a French citizen in 1937 when she married a wealthy young manufacturer and amateur flyer named Jean Lion-her second husband, first white one. After the master race moved into France she moved to Morocco, and was reported to have died broke...
...battleship finally came into its own. After Pearl Harbor many misinformed people thought they knew the answer when ex-Navy Flyer Al Williams asked: "What has any battleship done to date, in this war, but sink?" Midway and Alexander De Seversky between them reinforced this feeling, by overstressing the great importance of aircraft (particularly land-based planes) over the sea, and fostering the assumption that in all naval situations airplanes would be as dominant as they were at Midway...
...usual there is one carefree pilot who has to combat the dislike of his companions, sober up after causing the death of a conscientious man, and finally redeem himself by a glorious death while on a dangerous volunteer mission. This time the flyer is John Carroll, who does a better-than-average job with the part, but it doesn't make much difference because the idea is so hackneyed by now. On hand also to fill a necessary part of the old triangle is nurse and war worker Anna Lee. Her heart belongs to the handsome squadron commander, John Wayne...