Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scout bombers delivered the first blows at the Jap's main airdromes; torpedo planes followed them into his chief anchorages. Surface ships moved in on likely shore targets. From a Jap airdrome five bombers managed to take off, head for a carrier. A U.S. fighter set a Jap's engine afire...
Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were training in the area (TIME, Nov. 17). That was it, all right. Two of them, having a plane-to-plane chat by radio, had found piloting and talking English too tough, had relapsed into their native Chinese...
...just as permeable to cold as any other forked biped, the Army has taken large thought on the wherewithal he shall be clothed. Among the experts whom Lieut. Colonel Letcher O. Grice of the Quartermaster Corps has consulted on the subject has been Dr. Paul Siple, onetime Boy Scout who thrice accompanied Admiral Byrd to the Antarctic. Some of the experts' views...
...Edward Carson, 26, grandson of the famed scout, enlisted in the Marine Corps in Denver...
...Douglas MacArthur's Artillery Chief, Major General Edward P. King Jr., cemented a personal friendship of long standing with the Balugas, aboriginal Negrito tribe in central Luzon. In gratitude for rescues of many U.S. pilots after forced landings in the mountains, he cut his arm with a Boy Scout knife, bathed the knife in his blood and presented it to Baluga Chief Tomas...