Word: lwow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just out of a German prison camp and serving with Herbert Hoover's relief administration, U. S. Pilot Merian Coldwell Cooper was deeply shocked when a Russian cavalry detachment swooped down on a group of meanly-armed youths defending the fortified city of Lwow, sabered to death all but a handful. Pilot Cooper persuaded Polish authorities to let him recruit a squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes. Back to Warsaw he took ten crack flyers. Major Cedric E. Fauntleroy had been chief test and ordnance pilot of the A. E. F., later flew with Rickenbacker...
...demanded. Receiving equivalent rank in the Polish army, the U. S. pilots were paid on the same basis as the Poles. First casualty occurred when Lieut. Graves flew the wings off his Albatross during a review for bushy-browed Marshal Pilsudski, plummeted to his death in the midst of Lwow...
Zdzislaw Czermanski (pronounced "Zhishlaff Chairmanski"), a handsome, extremely self-possessed young man, was born in Lwow (pronounced "Wuff"), Poland, 35 years ago. His father & mother were mummers, but small Zdzislaw was only mildly interested in the theatre. He used to practice drawing caricatures by making faces at himself in a mirror. He learned much more about the human face by working for a time as a barber. During the War he enlisted in crop-headed Marshal Joseph Pilsudski's French-subsidized Polish Legion, was wounded, mentioned in despatches, thrice taken prisoner. In 1919 he gained his first fame...