Word: lanphier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceriness seldom if ever borders on the ridiculous is the achievement of all concerned with the production. The outstanding contributions are those made by Esther Junger's dances and special staging effects, by George Jenkins' superb sets and lighting, and by Carol Stone's performance as Barbara and James Lanphier's as the boy, but the entire Shubert production displays great balance and skill. And, despite its long travels since it was born around the corner at the Brattle Theatre two summers ago, and since it first appeared in Boston under the Shubert banner, "Dark of the Moon...
Captain Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., Army air hero (TIME, May 31), was shop-talking, with the professional airman's elaborate understatement, about one of the strangest engagements of this or any war-a battle in which U.S. fighter planes sank a Japanese destroyer by gunfire...
Three weeks earlier, Lanphier's squadron had whipped into Poporang Island with six planes, wrecked twelve float-Zeros, disabled a destroyer in an attack so fierce and low that Barber left three feet of his wing tip in the destroyer's funnel...
After that one the Japs hit back, sent bombers and an escort of Zeros to shoot up the American base. Tommy Lanphier and four other Lightning pilots attacked eleven Jap fighters, pulled away and began to climb. At 35,000 feet, where the turbo-supercharged Lockheeds were still flying handily, they turned on the gasping Zeros. In a few seconds seven were plunging down in flames. The other four started downhill...
Just below them, at 25,000 ft., was a flight of Vought Corsairs. Their Marine pilots got all four Japs. And that was how Tommy's younger brother, Lieut. Charles Lanphier, U.S.M.C., who had just arrived in the Solomons, shot down his first enemy plane. Charley picked off one of the four that Tommy had run down his way. The coincidence made that day's combat reports remarkably fine reading for their father, Lieut. Colonel Thomas G. Lanphier Sr., a West Pointer who won his pilot's wings in World War I, later resigned to survey commercial...