Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montee had begged a plane of Major General Mason M. Patrick, Army air chief. He had obtained his request and been assigned Lieut. Donald Fritch to fly with him as pilot. Lieutenant Fritch, of course, did much of the actual operating of their craft, but admiration echoed for the battered elderly gentleman who stepped out on Mitchell Field and asked the way to a hospital...
...Lieut. Colonel 24th Infantry Fort Benning...
Last week a steamship from South America docked in Manhattan and certain matters tof fact were learned from a prosaic, weatherbeaten man on crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs...
...motors were roaring. M. le Capitaine René Fonck had thrown away his last cigaret,* waved his last diffident adieu and sat at the controls. By him sat Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin, aide to Rear Admiral William A. Moffett of the U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. The S-35 lumbered forward. The crowd raced beside...
...feat was all in the year's work for the twelve planes of Squadron No. 1, commanded by Lieut. E. W. Spencer. During the winter they maneuvered far and wide about their base at Guantanamo, Cuba. In the spring they flitted back to Norfolk, Va., then six of them left in-June for summer exercises at Newport...