Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death Battle. The "Golden Gator" lost another engine, and a third was stalling. Captain Hinze dived sharply to windmill the engine back into action, skimming so low over a small island that the tail took a chunk out of a tree. The "Golden Gator" climbed hopefully again, but this time twin-engined Jap fighters attacked...
...doing of his own, is at once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still unaware of what is in store for him, he receives the brass-band salute aptly paraphrased as "AND the MONkey wrapped his TAIL around the FLAG POLE...
Earned Action. In England he volunteered for gunnery training. Once trained, he coaxed a strictly temporary training assignment. He was good. A month later he was taken on as waist gunner by 23-year-old Major J. B. Epting. On their first combat mission, over Bizerte in Tunisia, the tail gunner was wounded and Ben moved aft. Steady behavior and crack gunnery in combat had done the job. He belonged...
When he is ready for combat again, Ben Kuroki hopes to go to the Pacific theater. His roommate at Santa Monica now is Tail Gunner Edward Bates, who lost a brother in the Pacific. Says Ben: "I promised him the first Zero I get will be for his brother...
Another is Luis Procuna, who has fought only three bulls this season and each time has been awarded (by acclamation) not only the right to cut off one or both ears of the slain bulls, but both ears and the tail (very high approval...