Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice postponed, the goodwill squadron had finally lined up at Ciudad Trujillo, on the exact spot where Columbus is believed to have landed, to a farewell blessing from the Dominican Republic's wordy, despotic Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina-who among other activities in the past seven years changed the name of America's most ancient city from San Domingo to his own. The Dominican airplane, a single-motored, 450-h. p. Curtiss-Wright 19R, piloted by the nation's Army Air Commander Major Frank Felix Miranda, was named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus...
...national mourning, dispatched the gunboat Patria for the bodies and a seven-man commission to investigate the freak accident. Promptly Mexico's Congress voted three planes, headed by their army air ace Colonel Roberto Fierro and carrying both Mexican and Cuban flags, to replace Cuba's lost squadron. The flight is due in the U. S. in January and reluctantly its sponsors realized that the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse had probably been brought nearer by misfortune...
...said that his country was doing all in its power to prevent repetition of such an event as the Panay affair. "The naval officer who was in command of the aircraft squadron in Shanghai has been dismissed and recalled home," Saito revealed. "All other necessary steps are being and will be taken so that guarantees of safety will be assured all foreign persons and interests in the future...
...fatal day, while the little Panay anchored in the Yangtze 27 miles above Nanking, she was boarded by a Japanese officer and several soldiers who, if they were not aware of her identity when they came aboard, were in no misapprehension when they left. At 1130 p. m. a squadron of planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke...
...Bureau was Herr Göring's official biographer. Every German has heard the War story illustrating Göring's Chivalry. Göring, one of the Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...