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...Middle East," Major John R. ("Killer") Kane stood before a map of Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean...
...Britain's air force. Colonel Sweeny, who had fought in practically every war of the last four decades, though he sometimes could not remember on which side, was their honorary commander. Active command finally fell to 22-year-old Chesley Gordon Peterson, who was born in Salmon City on Idaho's wild "River of No Return." Later two other Eagle Squadrons of U.S. volunteers were formed: the 121st, the 133rd...
Closest to an exception to this rule is one letter from Alaska. "It's a real thrill to hook into one of these 30 pound salmon" and to admit that "we hope to be moved before winter sets in." Lost the "News" get the wrong impression of what life in the army is however, the writer hastens to add that "of course much can't be said...
...party moved into the dining room. The White House gold-and-silver service flashed in the noon sun. Tables were spread with platters of jellied salmon, jellied vegetable rings, hot chicken sandwiches, roast beef, a mountainous wedding cake frosted with signs of the Zodiac, doves and a big American eagle. Corks popped from magnums of champagne. President Roosevelt made a little speech...
...chicken and jellied salmon disappeared. The Meyer Davis orchestra, which has played dance music for every President since Woodrow Wilson, played tunes the bridal pair had requested. Bandleader Davis had even composed a new tune, A Song of Happiness, for the occasion...