Word: mahurin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired at the job of training good crews and airmen. Heading into battle, his invariable command was "Follow me." Among his many ace proteges (at one time there were 30 in his group) were Lieut. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski (28 enemy planes), Major Robert Johnson (27), and Major Walker Mahurin (21), all of whom became more famed than the man who showed them...
...Major Walker M. Mahurin, shot down over Europe the day of his 21st victory, returned to England-safe, sound, mum on how he escaped...
Boisterous, boyish (25) Bud Mahurin was a mediocre student at Fort Wayne (Ind.) High School because he spent too much time tinkering with motors. He learned to fly during two years of engineering study at Purdue. Holder of the D.S.C. and D.F.C., Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, he did not achieve top-scoring distinction easily. He flew his Republic Thunderbolt on 28 missions over Nazi territory before making his first kill...
Three Trumps. Mahurin is tied for fifth place among U.S. aces of World War II. Of the first ten, Major Walter Carl Beckham is the only other one who fought Germans. His Thunderbolt was downed by flak three weeks after his 18th victory (TIME, March 13). The only other Army man on the list is much-decorated Lockheed Lightning Pilot Captain Richard R. Bong (D.S.C., D.F.C., Silver Star, Air Medal, a cluster of ten Oak Leaf Clusters), whose 21 Jap kills put him in fourth place...
Lieut. Robert Hanson (Corsair), who crashed to death in a strafing dive, is runner-up with 25. Tied with Mahurin are Captain Donald Aldrich and Lieut. Kenneth Walsh (Corsairs...