Word: hedman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby-faced Robert F. ("Duke") Hedman, who had shot down six Japs, and had flown the Hump 350 times, had an unemployed $10,000. Joe Rosbert (six Jap planes), who once crashed in the Himalayas and walked out in 46 days, threw in $10,000, took a job as chief pilot. J.R. ("Dick") Rossi, also a six-plane man, got his letter in India after his 600th Hump crossing. Wrote Prescott: "Rossi, put that drink in your left hand and tell me what you're doing." Rossi joined...
...Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told this story to Correspondent Sten Hedman of the Toronto Star...
...from alone. Another squadron leader named John C. Waldron made history at Midway. Remember? And a young lieut. commander, John H. Morrill, took his men from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat. And the McNickle twins are flying bombers over Europe. And there's "Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they are also Dakotan...