Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China...
...flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent the rest of the day in a third plane...
Under him three men will steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...
...Marshalls. The yellow Pacific moon saw what the Jap had never thought to see. Spaced along a 200-mile ocean front, from the Marshall to the Gilbert Islands, was an assault force of U.S. cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers, led by a blue-water sailor and naval flyer, Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (see cut, p. 23). They were ready to strike the Jap in his stolen strongholds-2,300 miles from Pearl Harbor, but nearest of all his bastions to Hawaii...
...Mild-mannered Presbyterian U.S.A. Chaplain Major John K. Borneman, who served in World War I as an ace flyer, chats about a chaplain's typical experiences. Borneman, from Niagara Falls, carries cigarets, Bibles, toothbrushes to the front and says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...