Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commander Norman ("Bus") Miller commanded the Liberator squadron known as "Miller's Reluctant Raiders." His own patched, scarred bomber, decorated with a painting of a chamber pot and named "Thunder Mug," is covered with the record of his missions...
Ever since he led a squadron of unarmed Flying Fortresses into Hawaii early in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a 6 ft. Texan named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...
André Malraux, 49-year-old revolutionary French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...squadron promised Dr. Chung 200 Jap planes by next Christmas, but by June it had bagged only ten. Then, during the battle of Saipan, the squadron shot down 177 Jap planes within two weeks without a loss. Joyfully, squadron leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr., wired Dr. Chung: "TOJO SAY ROY GRUMMAN PUBLIC...
...which Leroy Randle Grumman, the man who makes Hellcats, Avengers, Wildcats and has more cats upcoming, wired back: "GRUMMAN MEN & WOMEN SAY BILL DEAN GRUMMAN COMPANY'S NO. I WORST CUSTOMER. SCORE 187 TO 0 NOT GOOD FOR THEIR BUSINESS." Bill Dean's squadron has now run its box score up to 223 Jap planes, has lost...