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Canada's only air force prisoner of the Korean war flew home to freedom last week. As the airliner from Tokyo touched down at the Vancouver airport, a handsome honey blonde broke from the crowd and ran to her husband, Squadron Leader...
Brasshat Without Brass. In 1944 the fading Goring relieved his fighter chief. In 1945, Galland wangled command of an elite ME 262 outfit known, because of the pack of aces he collected for it, as the "Squadron of Experts." The big picture thereupon dissolved to the gun-sight view. With the oldtime exhilaration, ex-Brasshat Galland blew up two U.S. Marauders. Then "a hail of fire enveloped me. A Mustang had caught me napping. A sharp rap hit my right knee. The instrument panel . . . was shattered. The right engine was also hit. Its metal covering worked loose . . . and was partly...
Galland landed, and wound up in a Munich hospital. Having begun the war as a flight lieutenant and squadron commander, he was mustered out a lieutenant general and squadron commander. Werner Molders with his 100 kills, Hans Joachim Marseille with his 158, Walther Novotny with his 250, had fallen but he had survived, the first and the last. Now completing a five-year contract as adviser...
...full squadron of third-string varsity players will bolster the ranks of the Crimson Jayvees today, as Coach Norm Shepard's eleven meets Dartmouth at 2 p.m. on Soldiers Field...
Most articulate of Premier Mendès-France's young braintrusters is J. J. Servan-Schreiber, 30, editor of the weekly political review L'Express. A U.S.-trained fighter pilot who served, with a Free French squadron in the Ninth U.S. Air Force, Servan-Schreiber was friend and counselor of France's Premier long before he came to power. This article was written by him for TIME...