Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Veysey the story of the "Golden Gator's" last fight...
Four ships had bombed the target, then headed home in a tight diamond formation. Fourteen Jap fighters jumped them, shot down the win ship "Fyrtle Myrtle" (socalled because one of its crew was a new father, another expectant). Then the Zeros shot out one of "Golden Gator's" engines; the pilot, Captain Frederick S. Hinze Jr., dived the ship into a cloud...
Death Battle. The "Golden Gator" lost another engine, and a third was stalling. Captain Hinze dived sharply to windmill the engine back into action, skimming so low over a small island that the tail took a chunk out of a tree. The "Golden Gator" climbed hopefully again, but this time twin-engined Jap fighters attacked...
...guns blazed. A bullet hit the skipper in the chest but he still kept the plane under control. Somehow, with one foot shot away, part of his face blown in, his hands a mass of bloody flesh and a hole straight through his chest, he did set the 'Golden Gator' down on the water. ... I picked myself up and reached for the skipper. But he was dead. His job was done...
Diligently searching its field for war news, Science Service emerged last week with a new U.S. secret weapon in the South Pacific: the human nose. Solemnly the Service quoted jungle-veteran Sergeant Delmar Golden...