Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those last eight days contained a life time's quota of joy and despair. The despair came in the wilds of Utah, where he was stranded in sub-freezing weather clad only in a light suit, As he described it. "After walking for some time I became tired and, taking my pack off my back, I seated myself on it and rested, but. . . I quickly realized that I was starting to freeze to death and that if didn't start walking I would never see the dawn of another...
Maryland .471 Utah...
Youngest is Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson, 22-year-old executive operations officer of the Army Air Corps' Fourth Group in Britain. A tall, lean, hay-haired farm boy from Santaquin, Utah (pop. 1,115), he has been fighting in the air for nearly three years, has flown in battle across the Channel more than 100 times. Thrown out of the U.S. Air Corps when his age was discovered, he enlisted with the R.A.F. a year and four months before Pearl Harbor, left for England on his 20th birthday. He led the R.A.F.'s First Eagle Squadron...
...your issue of Dec. 14 with great interest but we believe we have discovered an error in your story of Lieut. Colonel "Buzz" Wagner in which you state that he was (at 26) the youngest officer of his rank in the Army. Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson of Santaquin, Utah is his junior by four years. Lieut. Colonel Peterson, former leader of the American Eagle Squadron, is now stationed in England with the A.A.F. AVIATION CADET J. A. LOWRY AVIATION CADET J. A. LINDQUIST...
...most strongly defended fortresses on earth. The Arizona still sits on the bottom near Ford Island, a mute monument which many a sailor apostrophizes thus: "You bastards, you haven't paid enough for that yet." The ugly, rusty keels of the Oklahoma and the old Utah are still turned up to the bright Hawaiian sun, just as they rolled bottom-side up a year...