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...Good Side. On Jake Fitch's credit side, naval aviators found this to say: although he was 46 when he went to Pensacola and won his wings, he caught on fast, for an aviation ancient. Since then barrel-chested, rough-&-ready Jake Fitch has served only in aviation jobs: he commanded the seaplane tenders Wright, Langley, served in the carrier Saratoga; commanded the carrier Lexington, and was aboard her as a Rear Admiral when she was torpedoed in the Coral...
Welcome. In Pensacola, Fla., R. L. Kendrick campaigned for sheriff, advertised: "The front door of the jail will always be wide open...
After the war he turned again to learning and won his wings at Pensacola. After a tour as commander of aircraft squadrons in the Asiatic Fleet, he became technical adviser on naval aviation to the U.S. delegation at the abortive Geneva Conference...
Howard had learned how to fight from a top-grade teacher. Originally a Pensacola-trained Navy flyer, he resigned his commission to join the A.V.G. Flying Tigers in China under Major General Claire Chennault. He found good cornpany there, became a squadron leader in six months, shot down six Japs. When his China term was up, he came home rail-thin from dengue fever, took three months' leave, then went back to war, this time with the Army Air Forces...
...bookwormish, overfond of baker's buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went on to Pensacola to train as a U.S. Navy flyer...