Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quoting your review of the movie Fighter Squadron [TIME, Dec. 6]: "When O'Brien parachutes from a crippled plane, his wingman brashly lands in enemy territory to rescue him. This threadbare sort of hokum is fairly hard to take...
...Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
...Fighter Squadron (Warner) is a war movie about U.S. flyers who operated from bases in England. It is a moderately successful blend of Hollywood histrionics and actual combat films from World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...
John Costi of Williams scored the deciding goal in the 35th second of a "sudden death" period. The match, an unusually freescoring contest, which was played at the Squadron A Armory on 94th st, and Madison ave., inaugurated this year's indoor season...
Harvard polo moves to New York tomorrow night when the Crimson indoor squad takes on a Williams band in the Squadron A armory at 94th at and Madison ave. in the big city. The trios will face off at 8;30 p.m. A metropolitan league game between a pair of New York "name" teams is also on the bill...