Word: gunners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather worsened. But the third evening, a search pilot picked up unmistakable signs of debris from the sunken B29: a cluster of red and yellow boxes, a slab of aluminum, a bobbing flotsam of abandoned baggage. Another search plane was just heading back to base when its tail gunner thought he spotted a light. The plane turned back and at that moment the castaways decided to risk one of the last flares. "We knew then," said the search pilot, "that we had found them...
Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
...assignment he had picked graduates of tough schools. Husky Bill Mooney, 30, an ex-tail gunner who was shot down over Germany, had been trained on the police beat of Chicago's rough & ready City News Bureau (TIME, June 6). So had Fred Bird, 28, a Pacific combat pilot. They left the city room and were swallowed up by Skid...
Died. Russell Doubleday, 77, author (A Gunner Aboard the Yankee, 1898; Tree Neighbors, 1940), editor (World's Work) and publisher (vice president, Doubleday & Co.); after brief illness; in Glen Cove...
...mouthed Bernie Shelton,-50, youngest and meanest of the ill-famed Shelton boys, fell. He was dead in half an hour. His 59-year-old brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...