Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Larry Kuter (rhymes with pewter), a lean West Pointer ('27), looked like just the man to carry out the Finletter Commission's prescription for a closer tie between the Government's military and civil air branches. Trained as a bomber pilot, he became a brigadier general at 36 (the Army's youngest). He got to be known as a "fair-haired boy" of General Hap Arnold, served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, commanded a division of bombers in England, helped to plan and carry out the strategic bombings of Japan, was awarded the Distinguished Service...
...last the storm stopped. But for thousands of suburbanites, the memory lingered on. Among them was an airplane pilot, who had gone to his Bucks County, Pa. farm before the sleet began, had spent a night reading by candle light, glaring at his defunct radio, and listening to the sound of his prize maples collapsing under the weight of the ice. In the morning, as he set about trying to get back to LaGuardia Field, he made further discoveries: he could get no water (his electric pump was dead), no gasoline for his car (gas pumps were dead...
...Mosquito fighter-bomber, landing, had crashed into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
...plot about the beautiful native girl had never been written before. An ex-R.A.F. officer himself, he wrote a homely yarn of flyers in The Cruise of the Breadwinner (TIME, March 10). The Purple Plain is a routine mission of romance and adventure. Flying by dead reckoning, Pilot Bates keeps on a hack's course with the skill of a fair minor novelist until he has deposited his hero quietly in bed with his girl...
...that the independent Air Force will try to swallow the Navy's air arm, lean, 51-year-old Annapolisman Radford is the one admiral who is outspoken enough to hold the service together. Commander of the Second Task Force of the Atlantic Fleet, he has been a pilot since 1920, has served in nearly every branch of the Navy air arm from fighter squadrons to command of a carrier task group in the Pacific. He has also done his desk time in Washington, got his battle command because of his decisive slicing of red tape...