Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers of Wake were at work, too-jockey-sized, balding Major Jimmie Devereux, the commander; lean-hipped Major Paul Albert Putnam, commander of the fighter squadron; Major Walter Lewis John Bayler, temporary supervisor of Wake's air base (who was to be taken off Wake, presumably to report on weapons, tactics...
...learned something. He went back to bombing. Wake was hit by 27 planes, again by 32, by 30, by 41. He came again & again. With his patched-up ships, Paul Putnam's men went up to meet him, while the men on the ground slammed away with cannon and machine...
Letter for a Great Library. Between raids, 38-year-old Major Putnam penciled a report in his notebook, tore it out, sent it along in the patrol boat as his last report. As a Marine of 18 years' service, afloat and ashore, he must have been aware that he was adding another classic to the library of impersonal letters written by leatherneck officers since the first of the Corps sailed with John Paul Jones...
...singled out by name only Lieut. John F. Kinney and Technical Sergeant William J. Hamilton, for their work in patching up the squadron's flying equipment. Of the rest, Major Putnam wrote: "All hands have behaved splendidly and held up in a manner of which the Marine Corps may well tell...
...Lauretta Bender, Helen Harrington, Ralph S. Muckenfuss, Tracy Jackson Putnam, Albert A. Rosner, Lewis D. Stevenson, Hubert S. Howe...