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There, with his bride, he admired rows of his favorite Hellcat fighter planes (see BUSINESS), like a man staring at Niagara Falls. But he was cagey when a newsman asked what he had named his own plane: "I refuse to say for purposes of security." Then, beaming: "Marital security." And in France a 24-year-old lieutenant named Clarence E. Coggins became a hero in an unorthodox way: he got captured...
...Hellcat is a tough, round-bellied fighter plane that looks like two beer barrels, end to end. The U.S. Navy calls it the greatest sea fighter in the world. The Japs respect it above all other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes...
...watched from the bridge of a transport, one Hellcat, strafing from 700 feet, caught a burst of flak. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the water. The fire was extin uished as quickly as"'the life of the pilot...
Argentina last week enjoyed a gangster trial with super-Chicago trimmings. The star defendant: a 29-year-old, olive-skinned hellcat named Agata Galiffi who had wanted to be a movie star. She looked like a hard-eyed Joan Bennett...
...months beribboned Navy flyers have whispered behind waving hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...