Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke Lieut. Colonel Henry T. Myers of the Air Transport Command, pilot of the Sacred Cow and final judge of when she can venture out. Pointing out that the presidential C-54 has greater power, range and operating ceiling than ordinary commercial airliners, Colonel Myers said the flight was "routine," that he was amazed at the adverse comment. But the critics, knowing that some pilots would gladly try flying the Hump in a blizzard just for the hell of it, were not silenced...
...Navy's good friend, Congressman Carl Vinson, into frenzied cries that it smacked "of the Kaiser, of Hitler and of Japanese militarism." The President's plan, with the notable addition of the three assistant secretaries for land, sea and air, was the same plan presented by Lieut. General Joseph Lawton ("Lightning") Collins* (TIME...
...Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, veteran of the Pacific war; flew into New York last week to spend Christmas with his wife Em, made a suggestion which Army wives everywhere overheard. Said General Eichelberger, recently appointed boss of U.S. occupation forces in Japan...
Both U.S. and Chinese counter-intelligence were aware of the fifth column. Said Lieut. General Tang En-po, National Government commander in the Shanghai area...
...William L. White's best-selling war book of 1942. On the screen it is a leisurely story of how the small PT boats put up a big fight around the Philippine Islands. The fight is carried on by a squadron of heroes skippered by smooth, hard-hitting Lieut. Robert Montgomery* and rough, romantic Lieut, (j.g.) John Wayne. Captain John Ford, who produced and directed the picture, allowed his men to be much more natural than most Hollywood heroes, kept his music low, achieved a feeling of reality rare in war films. But where Author White's Expendable...