Word: thunderbolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City, Pa., was ready to welcome home its hero, 25-year-old Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski, top-scoring Thunderbolt pilot of the Eighth Air Force and top U.S. ace. Gabby's fiancée, pretty Kay Cochran, 20, had made all the plans for a wedding...
...sack!" proclaimed Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski. The 25-year-old pilot had just brought his Thunderbolt fighter back to its British base. His outfit had not sighted a single German plane that...
Nazi reports agreed on this: Commodore Colonel Walter Oseau, the Luftwaffe's third ranking fighter ace, had been killed in combat with a U.S. Thunderbolt pilot. On his record there was a sharp disagreement: some communiques credited Oseau with 116 Allied planes, some with...
...other: Captain Robert Johnson, 24, Eighth Air Force Thunderbolt pilot, momenta rily expected home on leave...
Since Johnson flies a P47 Thunderbolt, Army airmen can continue their argument about the relative merits of P-38s and P-475. Johnson flies against the Germans and Bong against the Japs; most airmen lately have been willing to concede that the Germans provide tougher opposition...