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...pediment of the neoclassic State Office Building at Sacramento is inscribed a line from a poem by the late Sam Walter FOSS: BRING ME MEN TO'MATCH MY MOUNTAINS. Visitors to the Governor's office frequently wonder if Earl Warren, California's 30th governor and favorite son for the Republican Presidential nomination, is not such...
...week's beginning Marine Major Gregory Boyington (TIME, Jan. 10) got his 26th Jap plane in aerial combat, tied the American records of Eddie Rickenbacker and Marine Joe Foss. But the mark is still to be broken...
...expected better hunting: he was still one short of tying, two short of beating the U.S. record of 26 enemy planes shot down, a record held jointly by World War II's Captain Joe Foss and World War I's Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. "Pappy" Boyington stomped off the jungle-hemmed field, vowing that he and his Corsair would buzz up every day until they notched a new mark...
Some of the delegates came from such far places as Chico, Calif, and Quonset Point, R.I. Among them were some of the most famed hot pilots of hot ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
...what a duck hunter calls "lead": the aim ahead of a moving target. Guns are fixed, the plane itself must be aimed. The plane and its target are both moving fast (sometimes one-sixth the speed of the bullets fired.) The whole process must be automatic. Said Joe Foss: "When you're in a fight you've got to think of shooting and nothing else. If you have to think about flying . . . well, you get killed." About deflection: "Best way to get a Jap fighter is to shoot him from a hundred feet, no deflection...