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...Winston Churchill, after spending the summer on the sidelines at doctor's orders, was back on the go again. He moved into fast company by lunching at Chequers with Squadron Leader Neville Duke, Britain's record-breaking jet pilot (see SCIENCE). Next day he dropped in at 10 Downing Street for a surprise visit, conferred for an hour with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich. At week's end, he was in the royal box at Doncaster, where Queen Elizabeth saw her horse Aureole finish third in the St. Leger stakes, later joined the royal family at Balmoral...
...first "90day wonder" class at Annapolis, served as forward turret officer on the armored cruiser Montana, later had a destroyer hitch, and ended his service in 1919 as a lieutenant j.g. But even naval duties did not prevent Corny Shields from doing some racing. In those days, each squadron had a sailboat or so for racing competition, and in the post-armistice winter of 1918-19, when Corny was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he skippered the winning 33-footer in a fleet competition...
...90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut. John Kennedy (no kin, now the junior Senator from Massachusetts), whose boat had been rammed and sunk by a Jap destroyer...
...April record. The final echelon, which roared into Fairford on the third day, did better still. One plane made the run in 5 hr. 30 min., another in 5 hr. 29 min. In the last of the wing's 45 planes came one of McCoy's squadron commanders, Lieut. Colonel Benny Klose, who shared the flying and navigating chores with his deputy, Lieut. Colonel Lawrence Grant, and the plane's regular pilot, Captain James B. Carter. Their average speed: 575 m.p.h. Their time...
...least a couple of U.S. contributions figured importantly in the proceedings. The R.A.F. announced that when R.A.F. Jet Squadron 74 whips over Buckingham Palace in a flypast honoring the newly crowned Queen, it will be led by U.S. Air Force Major George W. Milholland, and include three other American flyers on temporary duty with the R.A.F. Another U.S. offering, an ode to Queen Elizabeth by one Palmer H. Hjelle of Minnesota, was, however, politely declined. Sample verse...