Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAFS' second graduation. When the last diploma was handed out, the new pilots became members of the Army Air Transport Command, by next afternoon were fanning out to ferrying bases at Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Romulus, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. There they joined up with other WAFS already delivering aircraft from factories to Army tactical bases...
Died. Edsel Ford, 49, Henry Ford's only son; of post-operative illness complicated by undulant fever; in Grosse Point Shores, Mich...
Muskegon, Mich...
...months past, rumors of military misdoings had been piling up around Selfridge Field, Mich. Griping and gossip centered on ugly stories of unsoldierly behavior, favoritism, trading in promotions and bombproof jobs. Then came the most fantastic rumor of all: that the commander of the field, a full colonel, had been arrested for shooting a Negro private...
...Congressman Inquires. Representative Paul W. Shafer (R., Mich.) stormed that the Selfridge situation "smelled to high heaven" and vowed to get to the bottom of it; he hinted that McRae might have been shot for learning of some irregularity. In Detroit U.S. Attorney John C. Lehr said he would ask indictment of at least 50 civilians involved in efforts to bribe Selfridge officials...