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Word: pervision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Home after piloting heavy bombers on 25 combat missions over Europe, one day last spring Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C., Air Medal, etc., flirted his Flying Fortress up alongside a lumbering Braniff airliner (TIME, May 29). For this serious indiscretion he was court-martialed, sentenced to be cashiered as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Commutation | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Dismissal from the service, one of the stiffest penalties the Army can give an officer, is usually reserved for offenses involving moral turpitude. But a court-martial made an exception in the case of 24-year-old Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C. and cluster, Air Medal and three clusters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Hero's Sentence | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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