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...really well. Attacked by several Messerschmitts, they shot down three, damaged two others. The youngest of them all, Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, a Montana-born commercial pilot who once flew in South Africa for an ice-cream king, bagged one. At short range he shot away a " 'schmitter's" aileron, and the plane lurched and floated down so awkwardly that Daymond "didn't wait to see what happened because I was quite satisfied I had got him." Four days later in a similar action Eagle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Eagles Swoop | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...fair as a day in June can be, and so the sky-sweeps expected to run into plenty of fight. But when they flew back to their bases, they had to confess that for the first time during the sweeps they had not shot down a single "schmitter"-for the simple reason that not a single one had come up to talk bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Sweeps and Swats | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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