Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force has been bright on the U.S. uniforms visible in British trains, pubs, and village dances. But not until last week was there official announcement that the outfit had been moved from the Mediterranean to join the new Allied Expeditionary Air Forces under Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory as part of the Tactical (close support) Air Force...
...British released details of their "Leigh-light planes"-long-range night-fliers equipped with searchlights. One caught a submarine on the surface, damaged it with depth charges...
...having far too many plane crashes in which drink is a factor," observed D. Leigh Colvin,* the Prohibition Party's 1936 presidential candidate, who is convinced (in spite of contradictory WMC figures) that seven out of ten cases of war-plant absenteeism are caused by "bouts with...
...Mediterranean air fame, is to be Deputy Supreme Commander-in effect the executive officer directing the entire massive campaign by land, sea and air. The Royal Navy's Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay will be chief of Allied Naval Forces; the R.A.F.'s Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, chief of Allied Tactical Air Forces...
...Leigh-Mallory, a calm, strapping, 51-year-old six-footer, has been the R.A.F. fighter chief since 1942. As commander of R.A.F. No. 12 Fighter Group, he organized the offensives of 1941-42 which whittled away Germany's onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...