Word: newkirk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized forms of democratic balloting. We had been led to believe that this kind of voting had been discarded once and for all by the end of the Hitler regime. How can such a procedure as this give on unbiased picture of student opinion? Marold Brine, W.B. White, Gordon Newkirk...
...John van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk, death-dealing leader of the A.V.G. Second Pursuit Squadron, was killed last week. Newkirk had started to be a marksman at the age of five, when he got a bow & arrow. When he was ten his friends in Scarsdale, N.Y. dared him to shoot the first person who came along. That person happened to be the county sheriff, but Jack let fly anyway. When he grew up he studied chemistry and aeronautical engineering. A double mastoid operation in childhood almost kept him out of the Navy's air school at Pensacola...
After bagging 25 Jap planes, Squadron Leader Newkirk was awarded a D.S.C. by the British Government. To his family he wrote letters describing the flora and fauna of Burma; he told of killing a seven-foot cobra in the barracks...
...Newkirk's last combat was a raid on the Jap airdrome at Chiengmai in Thailand. He and his squadron dived low, burned or shot up 40 planes on the ground, machine-gunned the Jap pilots as they ran for their cockpits. At the edge of the field a Jap gunner with a machine gun mounted on a truck drew a bead on the enemy leader's plane, poured a long burst into its belly. While all the others zoomed away, Scarsdale Jack's plane stalled, shuddered, crashed in flames...
Over Rangoon a protective covey of American-flown Tomahawks (P-40s) and British Hurricanes beat off incessant waves of day & night bombing attacks. Paced by John Van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk (25 Jap planes shot down), who cut short a week-old honeymoon last July to join the American Volunteer Group, the outnumbered U.S., British, Australian, Canadian and Indian pilots in Burma chalked up 122 enemy planes against only five losses for themselves...