Word: raf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provided fills the bill, for the writers stress the humor, underscore the sentiment, yet never lose the bird in the shuffle. By keeping their dramatic proportions constant, they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed to protect the specimen for future science are convincing earmarks of a vital struggle. The dangers of disturbing tanks and black-faced egg-stealers...
...squad is Pete Steffans, who was one of the divers for the squad in 1942. Outside of Steffans, the mermen are as green as the pool at Dartmouth, except for the possible exception of Tony Bryan--50 yard free style who is a graduate of Oxford and the RAF, doing special work here...
Tony Bryan, late of the RAF and a graduate of Oxford doing special undergraduate work at the University, took the 50 yd. free-style with ease, with the stop-watch reading 26.4 secs. Ulen's two diving artists, Pete Steffens and Tony Drohan, ended up a half-point apart, with Steffens...
...Paris, the underground had risen prematurely. But in Paris the U.S. and French forces had arrived in the nick of time to save the patriots. In Warsaw, no rescue had come to the underground forces of General Bors, which for a month had stood off the German Army. RAF flyers in Italy had made the 1,750-mile round trip to drop supplies and a few weapons (TIME, Aug. 28). So far the Russians, some ten miles away, had dropped nothing...
...time of war. Its beautiful costuming and fancy scenery must have caused an outlay of cash sufficient to make up a day's losses over Berlin. The manpower involved in its production might well have turned the tide at the Cassino hotel, and the celluloid expended enabled the RAF to take better pictures at the invasion coast...