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...Fonda, bought a small civilian school at Phoenix, hired six instructors. A little later he bought a one-mile desert tract outside the city, ploughed out the cactus and rattlesnakes, built a palacelike Air Corps training center with pastel-colored buildings, olive orchards, tennis courts and bright red Thunderbird insignia over everything. The first Thunderbird graduates got their diplomas only four months after the desert was broken, had a bang-up graduation party with pretty Hollywood starlets, listened to Hoagy Carmichael (also a Southwest stockholder) pound the piano...
...informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left behind by the Germans. His headquarters was an elaborate caravan of trucks captured in 1941 from Italian General "Electric Whiskers" Bergonzoli. There, seldom breaking his schedule...
...sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
Still tops in World War II is the score of late Lieut. Colonel Werner Molders, designated "Ace of Aces" by Hitler, decorated with the diamond-encrusted insignia of the Oak Leaves with Swords of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He shot down, according to the Germans, 103 planes, then was killed in the crash of a plane in which he was a passenger...
This wasn't like an American Legion convention. Then Vag noticed that none of the Legion caps had state insignia on them. They were all alike. Vag remembered that before he went away for the weekend the Yard had been full of men in khaki summer suits. He went closer to the crowd. It was still the Navy, he decided; they all had southern accents...