Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
...TIME, Jan. 22, 1934). The Navy's high command modestly waved aside the acclaim that followed this remarkable flight, said it was merely a rou tine transfer of men and equipment. Last week the Navy effected another "routine transfer of men and equipment," sur passed Squadron VP-10's mass-flight record...
...morning Lieut. Commander Wil liam McDade and 80 officers and men of Patrol Plane Squadron VP6 climbed into twelve huge low-slung flying boats in San Diego Harbor, roared off without cere mony in trim formation toward Pearl Har bor, 2,553 mi. away. Next morning, 21 hr. 48 min. later, Patrol Squadron VP6 completed its routine task without mishap at Pearl Harbor...
...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...
When news of this reached Vice Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little, Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron at Shanghai, he was so incensed that he postponed a scheduled trip to Japan. In London, news of the Japanese provocation at Keelung was kept secret long after the facts were known at the British Admiralty, and not a single Japanese newsorgan carried so much as a line on the Keelung ordeal...