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During the dull, dragging, off-duty hours in the South Pacific, pilots in the Marine "Red Devil" squadron killed time with long bull sessions. When they talked of postwar plans, Captain Kendall Everson always had the" same answer: "I'm going to start an airline." His tent mate, Captain Gerard Ray, liked the idea, often argued its merits with Captain John Daugherty, who thought it overambitious...
...District Judge in the Virgin Islands, the first Negro ever to sit on the Federal bench. As civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson in 1941, William Hastie pushed and prodded for Negro recognition in the services, finally got the War Department to set up the 99th (all-Negro) Fighter Squadron. Two years later, disillusioned over the Army's persistent segregation policy, he resigned...
They Were Expendable (MGM) is an adaptation of William L. White's best-selling war book of 1942. On the screen it is a leisurely story of how the small PT boats put up a big fight around the Philippine Islands. The fight is carried on by a squadron of heroes skippered by smooth, hard-hitting Lieut. Robert Montgomery* and rough, romantic Lieut, (j.g.) John Wayne. Captain John Ford, who produced and directed the picture, allowed his men to be much more natural than most Hollywood heroes, kept his music low, achieved a feeling of reality rare...
Rules for Peace. Tom Hardin, who earned his wings in the 101st Aero Squadron in 1917, started out as a barnstormer...
...Navy wife in Washington, listening to the radio, recognized the lyrics. Her Annapolis-trained husband, Captain William Gordon ("Slim") Beecher, who commands a destroyer squadron in Tokyo Bay, wrote them. Mrs. Beecher remembered that some of her husband's 116 previous compositions had done well-his Song of Old Hawaii had been a 1938 hit. Passing up no bets, Mrs. Beecher visited the copyright office next...