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Died. Admiral John Henry Towers, U.S.N. (ret.), 70, pioneer in naval aviation, who flew the first U.S. Navy seaplane in 1911, became commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in 1945 in a shake-up that indicated the increasing importance of Navy aviation; of cancer; in New York City. In...
For 18 months of war, Bill thirsted for action and got none. He flew seaplanes-lumbering Catalinas-from Australia but much of the time he waited for airplanes that did not arrive or would not fly. At last his frustration stirred up stomach ulcers, and he was shipped back to...
Before the end of World War II, seaplanes had become the stepchildren of naval aviation. Here & there a fleet of lumbering PBYs and Martins still put out on patrol, and a few floatplanes were catapulted from cruisers. But the Navy was turning almost exclusively to landplanes when the jet age...
*Named in honor of Mussolini's Italo Balbo, who set Chicago on its ear in 1933 when he led two dozen seaplanes in a 6,100-mile, 16-day flight from Orbetello, Italy via Amsterdam and Iceland to Chicago, where they landed in perfect formation on Lake Michigan.
At a field radio, a young airman in a grey-green general's uniform adjusted his earphones. "Guards Lieut. General V. Stalin is now at the command post," the loudspeaker announced. "The military part of the display now starts." Suddenly, two silvery, swept-wing MIG-15 jets hurtled across...