Word: macchi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want to duck the chin gunner. Wait...
...that he was just an innocent hobbyist who had bought the medal for a song from coworkers. Within the month, three other telephone men had been arrested, and details of several break-ins emerged. Not only had the Pope been ripped off, but so had his secretary, Monsignor Pasquale Macchi, whose study had been fleeced of coins, a jeweled pectoral cross and a gold watch...
...only one thing that counts and that's his speed." Unlike Bonnet, who was always referred to as "Monsieur," Béranger is on a first-name basis with team members, who praise him lavishly. "He knows how to talk to teen-age girls," explains Françoise Macchi, 19. "He's young, and he understands our problems...