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...announced that it had caught its man. Lieut. William G. Bigony, 31, Enlisted Personnel District Officer and a member of the main examining board, admitted taking bribes up to $100 to help six enlisted men get transfers and promotions. Court-martialed for conduct unbecoming an officer, Lieut. Bigony, a mustang who had worked his way up from the ranks in 13 years of spotless service, faced up to 18 years in prison, dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of pay. Sighed a Navy officer: "This sort of thing happens all the time ... we just do our best to weed...
...later chief experimental engineer. Always one for seeing projects through from drafting board to trial run, Hives tested new engines by driving them in racing cars. During World War II, as Rolls's managing director, he supervised the design and production of the famed Merlin engine that powered Mustang, Hurricane and Spitfire fighter planes...
...northwest Korea last week, an air-ground liaison officer attached to the U.S. 24th Division gave a nervous laugh as he listened to the radio chatter of Mustang pilots overhead. "Do not Josephine," the pilots cautioned one another. "Do not Josephine!" In Air Force parlance, "Do not Josephine" means "Don't use up all your ammunition on ground targets; you may need it to fight your way home...
After the war, Lou Sebille spent some time as a commercial airline pilot, finally decided to return to the Air Force as a career officer. He was again made a major and sent to a base in southern Japan. There, Lou Sebille rose to command of a Mustang squadron, used to like to lounge around his squadron's Quonset hut and talk about fighting and dying. "If you have to die," he used to say, "then take some of the enemy with...
Then Squadron Leader Louis Sebille wheeled his Mustang around in the Korean sky, and bore down for the kill. With him he took himself, his plane, and a whole truckload of the enemy...