Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aldo Pellegrini, they dined together at a severely vegetarian training table. The hours of each day were strictly apportioned to flight practice, study, outdoor sport, sleep. A wife who tried to see her husband at Orbetello was brusquely informed at the gate: "All the pilots of the Atlantic squadron are bachelors." Indignantly she hurried home, exhumed her marriage certificate, stormed the Air Ministry at Rome. But she was not permitted to see her husband until the visitors' days last week...
With discipline relaxed the pilots amused themselves like college footballers on the eve of a Big Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the figure of an eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send...
...Flight to A Century of Progress is known to Italians as Crodera del Decennale (Cruise of the Decennial) celebrating the tenth birthday of Fascism. It was conceived two years ago by General Balbo when he completed his squadron flight of ten seaplanes (out of 14 starters) across the South Atlantic to Brazil. At first he proposed to take his squadron completely around the world, but abandoned that scheme as too pretentious, if not too risky. Even the flight to the U. S. and back, a magnificent military gesture costing upward of $500,000, was not approved by all Italians...
Loyola University (Chicago, Ill.) Commander Italo Balbo, Italy's Air Minister, leading an Italian air squadron to the World's Fair (in absentia) LL.D...
Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...