Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Firing on Us." "The plane was Hying 180 knots at 8,000 feet," the commander, Lieut. Richard Fischer, said a few hours later, "when ordnance [i.e., his aviation ordnanceman] reported a Russian plane. 'I have an aircraft! It's firing on us!' I took immediate evasive action. A hail of machine-gun bullets hit the fuselage and port wing, and injured three or four men. We had no opportunity to return fire...
...plane later crash-landed on St. Lawrence Island. The landing was smooth as a landing like that can be." The eleven crewmen were soon picked up by Eskimos, and were later flown back to their base in Alaska by U.S. rescue planes."There was no panic at any time," Lieut. Fischer concluded. "The men were laughing and joking-except those in pain from burns...
...messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked three times with his staff at the barred doors. When the doors swung open, he ceremoniously summoned the members to attend upon Her Majesty in the House...
After their solitary confinement ended, they had the use of a library (Balzac, Hugo, etc.). and were allowed to play tennis with crude rackets and a thin rubber ball. Lieut. Cameron, a handy man with an accordion, wangled a cheap Russian model and taught the others to play. They got a daily Communist newssheet, full of propaganda, but saw only one American periodical in all their months of imprisonment: every week, Lieut. Cameron received from his brother, Bob, 21, a copy of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED which the Chinese passed on after inspecting it carefully and clipping out some of the articles...
...Intense and studiously silent, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Joe Conrad, 25, allowed himself only a low little pre-putt whistle to relieve the tension of the final round of the British Amateur golf championship. It was enough. Unruffled by the rain and hail that blew off the Irish Sea, Conrad staved off England's Alan Slater and won the match on the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's links...