Word: gunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whitfield has done most of his running on special passes from the Air Force, from which he has just been discharged after nearly ten years' service, including 27 missions as a tail gunner in Korea. This season he is wearing the jersey of the Grand Street Boys' Club, an athletic and social club on Manhattan's West Side. Unable to key himself up for competition unless the stakes are of near-Olympic level, he has set himself an improbable and almost impossible goal: ten world records, indoors & out, between 440 and 1,000 yards. At 28, planning...
Russell Reading Braddon, an artillery gunner with Australia's 8th Division, spent his 21st birthday with both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle...
...Tastes Like Rabbit. Under the sizzling tropic sun on the way to the prison camp at Pudu, the sense of common humanity melted away; a man saved himself. When a sniveling, fear-crazed sergeant begged to be carried, Gunner Braddon refused, then watched passively while a Jap guard pumped five bullets into the sergeant's stomach at a foot's range. At Pudu, each meal consisted of a handful of pasty rice sometimes crawling with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty...
...MaCoy arrived in Tokyo a year ago, spent six months in Korea as an interlude between two lively assignments in Latin America (TIME, Feb. 4). Last November, Bud Hutton joined the Tokyo staff. Hutton, who claims to be virtually indestructible in wars, flew 23 missions as a gunner before D-day in World War II, later made a parachute jump at the Rhine ("I got jarred around a little bit, that's all"), and came out unscathed when his jeep was forced off the road by a truck in Korea...
...hull in a single piece for added strength. It is designed with sloping sides to deflect enemy shells. The T-48's high-velocity 90-mm. gun has more punch than the 90-mm. mounted on some U.S. World War II tanks, and the gunner can swing on target with a new deadeye range finder...