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Last week VF-781, volunteering to the man, became the first organized reserve squadron to be accepted intact for the Korean war. Every pilot in the squadron was ready for active duty on one condition, that they go as a unit. Forty of VF-781's enlisted ground crewmen felt the same way. Their prompt and unanimous application got a brisk salute from Vice Admiral John Dale Price in Washington-and a sheaf of orders to duty...
...their way back home after two weeks of fighter squadron training, 30 Tennessee Air National Guardsmen and a crew of four were killed this week in the flaming crash of a Florida National Guard C46 troop transport which had just taken off from the training camp at Myrtle Beach...
...during the war. Handsome General Luigi Gallo, who was a squadron leader in Italo Balbo's famed formation flight to the U.S. in 1933, and in 1945 became director of Italian civil aviation, was made boss of operations...
Died. Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, 62, oldtime Royal Navy seadog, commander of the three cruiser squadron (Ajax, Achilles Exeter) that licked the Admiral Graf Spee in the Rio de la Plata in December-1939; in Goring-on-Thames, England...
Also competing will be five vessels from the United States Naval Academy yacht squadron and the 68-foot yawl "Tabor Boy," training ship for Tabor Academy in Marion...