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The reputation held long after he had become one of the Air Corps' best pilots. But in 1940 a change began to come over rollicking Blondie. Assigned to Hickam Field, Hawaii, he was made Commander of a Flying Fortress outfit. And Blondie became serious, sobersided, calculating. On Dec. 7...
Charged with forming and training a new Bombardment Group, Saunders sweated until he had whipped his Group into combat shape.
By August, his planes were dropping down on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, then a clearing barely big enough for a Fortress to land. Saunders became Airbase Commander, quickly got the field into better condition, established air supply lines for gasoline, parts and crews. At heart still a tackle (West Point 1924...
Last Christmas Day Saunders and his chief executive, Major Jack Malloy, were summoned to headquarters of the Solomons' Air Commander, Major General Millard Harmon, for a cocktail party. In the midst of festivities COMSOUPAC Admiral William F. Halsey showed up, read an order, pinned on flustered Blondie the stars...
Stammered Saunders, mindful of his Bombardment Group: "Fifteen hundred men are pinning those stars on my shoulders."