Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most remarkable box score of all is still being totted up. It is the record of one Navy squadron, some of the "fair-haired bastards of Dr. Chung...
Admiral Raymond Spruance used-them to fill out the ranks of his first-line carriers. The CVEs were entrusted with the job of covering the Saipan operation while the big carriers moved on to meet the Jap fleet off the Philippines. Last week a CVE air squadron, Composite Squadron 33, was home after ten months of combat in the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Hollandia, Aitape and the Marianas. Planes and guns of the baby carrier had destroyed 35 Jap aircraft. The little flattops had become an offensive weapon...
Handsome, 50-year-old Don Moon, fourth in his class (1916) at the Naval Academy, served on a battleship in World War I, made his way quietly up the naval ladder between wars. In 1942, as commander of a destroyer squadron, he helped support the landings on North Africa and was officially cited for "exemplary conduct" and "leadership under fire." For Admiral Moon, as far many another officer, the invasion of Normandy was the high point of a career. He played his part with precision and assurance...
Killed in Action. Squadron Leader Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 32, youngest brother of the boxing Duke of Hamilton, husband of Physical Culturist Prunella Stack, Britain's "Perfect Girl," with whom he toured England preaching wartime physical fitness...
...would be a boy "just like his daddy-in fact, be another Orson Welles." Orson told her he wanted 17 children, but she said: "You know Orson-he always has to exaggerate a little. Three or four would be enough for me." To admirers in the 362nd Fighter Squadron Rita sent an autographed slip...