Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a flyer. You know how he was the pilot of a bomber on an important mission in the Mediterranean and how he brought back his plane and landed it. You know the rest of the crew got out and after a while looked around for Jimmy. But Jimmy hadn't come out of that plane. ... He landed the plane and died...
Said Purdy: "If we hadn't been so naive, we never would have tried...
...wish the war hadn't stopped when it did. It's a damn shame-I was just beginning to get good ideas about commanding infantry battalions. I wish I could go back to the front and try them...
Almost Human. The six machine guns "seemed to cut the column to bits. ... I could see those who hadn't been hit trying desperately to crawl up the muddy bank . . . and slipping back. ... I came back over . . . kept on cutting them to pieces until my ammunition was gone; I fired 1,890 rounds into those three or four hundred Japanese, and I don't think more than a handful escaped." Back at base, Scott christened his P-40 " 'Old Exterminator' . . . patted the gun sight affectionately [and] knew right then that this ship was almost a human...
...citizens of Phoenixville, Pa. (four miles from Valley Forge) hadn't known such hoopla since the Revolution, when British soldiers pushed as far west as Phoenixville. The town is Big Inch's eastern junction; two pipelines, still uncompleted, will push their separate ways on to Philadelphia, 30 miles away, and Bayway, N.J., 92 miles...