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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of apparently different standards, the Allied records are lower. The top Allied ace, Russia's Major Alexander Pokryshkin (TIME, May 15), is credited with 53, he said last week. (No Westerner rightly knows how Russian airmen's scores are figured.) Britain's Group Captain Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan and the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane, each with 32, are the Western Allies' top scorers; the U.S.'s are Major Richard Ira Bong and Captain Robert S. Johnson, each with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Aces | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock's 73, Billy Bishop's 72 and French Major René Fonck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: No. 1 Ace | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: A Szechwanese Dies | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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