Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War I came, Eddie enlisted, wangled a job as chauffeur to General John J. Pershing. He drove him to the front lines only once. As a flyer Eddie was resourceful, by turns cautious and daring. No U.S. flyer learned so well the corkscrew roll which enabled him to see ahead, behind, above, below and to the side; none topped his bag of 21 German planes and four balloons...
...wiry little officer said grimly: "Some one's going to get relieved over this." A flyer, an old hand with greying hair and a cynical look, said: "Well, that's three I've seen go-the Lex, the Yorktown and now this baby." A thin-faced chief petty officer said: "I'm thinking of those boys on Guadal." The ship's executive officer said merely: "We'll just have to develop better methods of detection...
...Oklahoma rural-mail carrier. But it was highly satisfactory to blast the fears of former commanding officers who, on fitness reports, had often left open to question Smitty's "presence of mind." Nineteen planes shot down in half as many months by the 27-year-old flyer was a fitting answer, and probably made John Smith of Oklahoma...
...recent statement that Nazi leaders would be tried and punished by United Nations tribunals after the war (TIME, Aug. 31). Berlin propagandists suddenly associated the chaining of prisoners with the allegation that the British planes had bombed German hospitals in North Africa. They alleged that a German flyer had been hanged in the tatters of his own parachute. They screamed that German prisoners in Canada had been scalped...
Married. Major James Warner Bellah, 43, veteran flyer, adventure writer; and Third Officer ("second lieutenant") Helen Lasater Hopkins, 27, of the WAACs; he for the fifth time; in Nashville. She said the ceremony was the first WAAC wedding...