Word: moms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mom. . . ." Stephen Burdette Smith had to lie about his age to get into the Navy back in 1919. He was just 16 when he went off to boot camp at Great Lakes. In 1927, at aviation school, he took his first uncertain solo hop. Fifteen years later Chief Machinist's Mate Smith flew off the Enterprise against Jap-held Kwajalein, and on June 3, 1942, worrying about a photograph he had meant to send to his wife, Smitty in an old TBD chugged into the Battle of Midway...
Young and Cocky. Fighting Two started out with young and cocky confidence. Their emblem was a green dragon tearing a Jap flag to shreds. "Mom" Chung, the servicemen's devoted foster mother in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 11), had designed it for them, especially for their leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr. They called themselves the "Rippers...
...July 6 -Mom: Wings are in sewing kit, am entitled to all stars and more. Be sure to check ins. etc. 10,000 ins. [Roses] to remind me of Helen. I've always loved her. Love kisses same for you mom...
...Surprise July 15 tell Helen I found God be happy love. No rain for 2 weeks . . . to Helen I loved her until the end-Jack. I love mom dad and all wish I eat some of her cooking...
...Margaret ("Mom") Chung is a famed San Francisco doctor. In 1931, seven flyers, turned down by the Navy, asked her help to get them into the Chinese air force, and formed the "Flying Sons of Mom Chung." When unmarried Dr. Chung pointed out that this made them all illegitimate, they changed the organization's name to the "Fair-haired Bastards of Dr. Chung." Among Allied pilots, there are now 659 such bastards...