Word: foss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Dakota really "made" your Feb. 8 issue, with pictures of Brigadier General La Verne Saunders of Aberdeen and Captain Joe Foss of Sioux Falls. However, no one except South Dakotans would know it because the words "South Dakota" were missing, as usual...
General Saunders and Captain Foss are far from alone. Another squadron leader named John C. Waldron made history at Midway. Remember? And a young lieut. commander, John H. Morrill, took his men from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat. And the McNickle twins are flying bombers over Europe. And there's "Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they...
Husky, square-jawed Captain Joseph J. Foss, ranking U.S. ace, returned to Guadalcanal from leave all ready to better his score of 23 enemy planes. He lost no time doing so. Before his hard-bitten competitors in Marine Fighting Squadron 223 could say "mess kit," he had knocked down three more Zeros. On the basis of last week's news, Joe Foss had already equaled Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's record of World War I: 26 aircraft...
...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 flyers in World...
Nearest to Foss's record are his fellow Guadalcanal Marine flyers, Major John Lucian Smith (19) and Captain Marion B. Carl (16), but Foss still has not equaled the 26-plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock...