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...heard of Dick and David Atcherley, the flying twins. Dick was the stuntman:he clowned his way to fame in prewar days by chasing cottontail rabbits in a souped-up biplane, dragging one wingtip in the dust at 80 m.p.h. David was more conventional: he commanded a peacetime fighter squadron at the age of 34. In the Battle of Britain, the flying Atcherleys were among the famed few to whom so many owed so much. In 1950, both became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...postwar Britain, the "terrible twins," waxing plump and still bachelors, were made air vice-marshals.* David took his jet fighter squadron to Suez to guard the Empire's lifeline; Dick took charge of the air defense of Britain's Midland counties. Last week Air Vice-Marshal David, now 48, climbed in his Meteor jet and took off for Cyprus, about 300 miles away. Somewhere in the airforce-blue waters of the peaceful Mediterranean, he crashed and drowned, leaving Air Vice-Marshal Dick to go it alone...
...when France's armies were in full retreat, a gallant young officer tried almost singlehanded to stem the German advance. Time & again he flung his motorized squadron through the enemy lines. A machine-gun blast shattered his left arm, and he fought on. Soon afterward, a grenade ripped off the wounded hand. A night later, his arm amputated, the young officer shinnied down out of a military hospital window and escaped. Thus crippled, he parachuted into Nazi territory to carry on the fight underground. A grateful nation later rewarded Captain Antoine-Pierre-Etienne Chalvet Bauny...
...Blame. He blamed the accident on the destroyer's captain, Lieut. Commander William J. Tierney, 32, of Philadelphia. He noted that the skipper had received a dispatch the day before from the destroyer squadron commander calling for "prompt and resolute action [in performing maneuvers], even at the expense of an occasional mistake . . ." He suggested that it might have "affected the attitude" of Commander Tierney in handling the ship...
Professional Career: First command: 6th Pursuit Squadron, Hawaii, 1929, where he won a reputation as one of the service's best aerial gunners. In 1927 he was assigned to fly as Richard Arlen's double in the crash sequence of Wings. In 1939 he went into the Air Corps plans division, where General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz was his "boss; was awarded the DSM three years later for his work on World War II air plans; became a brigadier general. In 1943, appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, won the DFC and Silver Star...