Word: pensacola
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...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, but his hearing was normal and he squeezed in. His weak eardrums were twice ruptured during dive-bombing practice. They healed. Last summer Newkirk married a Michigan girl; she took a defense job in California when he went to the Far East with the A.V.G...
Correspondents had to obscure individ ual tales of valor with local pseudonyms: Kirk of San Saba, Sandy and Bill from San Antonio in Texas; Frank from Pensacola...
Each month 100 Britons enter Jacksonville, Pensacola and Corpus Christi. Like Army airmen, Navy instructors find that the first stages of their courses often prove baffling. But after catching the hang of language, speed and precision, the British students average out about the same as American boys, with a few crack pilots, plenty above average, none that are dopes; the washout system takes care of that...
...will have completed their training when they have passed one month at Squantum and seven months more at Jacksonville, Pensacola, or Corpus Christi. At the end of that period they are commissioned either as Ensigns in the Naval Reserve of Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and receive the gold wings of a Naval Aviator...
Last week the drastic sentence of the court-martial was back in Pensacola, approved by the President. Both officers were dismissed from the service. Both were sentenced to penal terms at hard labor: Brown to serve two years, Thompson one. Under guard of Marines, the disgraced officers set out for the naval prison at Portsmouth...