Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteers was John Danforth Browne, 23, of Florham Park, N.J. In 1941 he quit New York University, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. He fought out of North Africa and Britain. By last March his squadron had bagged 641 enemy planes...
...slept well, eaten a hearty breakfast. Now with his corncob pipe he pointed over the glassy, green waters of Leyte (rhymes with 8-A) Gulf, where rode the greatest fleet ever assembled in the South west Pacific. Around him were hundreds of transports, shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed...
This single-mindedness, until he became a success again, made him enemies. The Navy gave him a U.S. fleet (the Seventh) and the Australian Squadron. Once he spoke unguardedly of ''my Navy" and the proud Navy found it hard to forgive him. There was a time, especially while the MacArthur-for-President boom was being drummed up in the States, when the name of Douglas MacArthur was not always cheered in Navy wardrooms...
...Their carrier task force moved south to the New Guinea theater and struck Hollandia, moved north east for strikes at Truk, Satawan and Ponape. Still the Rippers were no better than any mine-run fighter squadron. In early June the task force went north to lend a hand in the invasion of the Marianas. There the squadron found itself...
...Record. Last month they knew they were flying their last missions as a squadron. They sweated it out, as all flyers do when home is on their minds again. Bill Dean thought of his wife and three children in California. Mike Wolfe thought of the baby daughter he had never seen, Earling Zaeske of his new son. They also thought of the baby daughter Demarest Lloyd had never seen and never would. Said the squadron diary: "Bernie McLaughlin landed from combat air patrol and announced that he had figured it out over Morotai that there are 84 shopping days...