Word: pensacola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anderson longed for wings. Annapolis had given him a short course in aviation, and in 1930, following a brief stint on a cruiser in the Pacific, he shipped to Pensacola for full flight training. After that, he flew catapult-launched seaplanes from the decks of cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, suffered his first "and only significant" crash: during aerial gunnery practice one day, a tow target got wrapped around Anderson's propeller; the plane came down flat on its back onto a Virginia beach. Anderson crawled out uninjured...
...stroke-play tournament. Both had already played close to 100 holes, and it was Billy Joe who went to pieces-into the trees on the 34th and a sand trap on the 35th-leaving Harris to face Downing Gray, a 24-year-old insurance man and weekend golfer from Pensacola, Fla., in the finals...
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Over Easter vacation, 26 Naval ROTC students, mostly freshmen, will visit the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla. They will fly in naval aircraft and tour the facilities of the training center...
...surface Navy did nothing to change Felt. Then, out of sheer boredom, he put in for flight training. From the start, flying became the focus of his life. And with his new enthusiasm he recovered the old drive that his mother had tried so hard to nurture. At Pensacola he met a pretty Alabama girl named Kathryn Cowley, and next day he wrote his mother that he had found the woman he was going to marry. A few weeks later he let Kathryn in on his plans. That little matter attended to. he turned back to aviation with single-minded...