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Coming to study Central Europe is Kendall Foss, contributing editor on Time Magazine. The eight daily newsmen are David E. Botter, Jr., political reporter on the Dallas News, Robert Bordner, reporter on the Cleveland Press, William H. Clark, feature writer of the Boston Sunday Globe, Edward W. Edstrom, assistant Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., city editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Ben Holstrom of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune, Nathan W. Robertson, Washington correspondent of PM, and Charles A. Wagner, Sunday editor of the New York Mirror...
Born. To Marine Major Joseph Jacob Foss, 29, fighter-pilot ace (26 Jap planes. Congressional Medal of Honor) ; and June Foss, 24: their first child, a daughter, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Name: Cheryl June. Weight...
Guadalcanal. The Pacific war moved south and the Marines moved with it. They fought over Guadalcanal, based on the field which they had named after Loften Henderson. They flew workhorse Douglas bombers. They flew old Grumman fighters against nimbler Zeros, but adapted their tactics to their ship. Major Joe Foss tied Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record of 26 kills. On one day he got two before lunch, three in the afternoon...
Last month Major Richard Ira Bong, a P-38 Lightning pilot, shot down his 26th and 27th planes over New Guinea, breaking a tie which had long existed between two marine pilots, Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and missing Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair). Thus Dick Bong became the U.S. Ace of Aces...
...China General Chennault has already prohibited the publication of his pilots' box scores. Marine Major Joe Foss, who shares the World War II record of 26 kills with missing Marine Major Gregory Boyington, announced recently upon returning to the Pacific: "We're not out for records. ... If we get any Zeros, it will be the result of team play...