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...only U.S. tactical air outfit anywhere in France-is just as unready. The 126th is an Illinois Air National Guard outfit, originally an observation squadron which served in the Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen, 42, who led a B-17 group in North Africa and Europe in World War II. The 126th became a light bomber wing only four months before it was yanked back into federal service last March, got a refresher course of sorts...
...initial hard-core cadre of 60,000 volunteers solicited from among veteran officers and noncoms of the World War II Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe...
Some shots of the Valley Forge rehabilitation center are fairly interesting. Besides these, only Arthur Kennedy's brilliant acting as a blinded veteran saves this movie from being not only dull, but offensive as well...
Andy Mead (the nick-and maiden names she is best known by) is the best U.S. Olympic skier. Last winter she won almost every major ski race in Europe-including the Arlberg-Kandahar downhill race, the unofficial world championship. At 19, she is a veteran of the 1948 Olympics and captain of this year's U.S. women's Olympic ski team...
Died. P. R. Crump, 104, Alabama's last veteran of the War Between the States; in Lincoln, Ala. Enlisting in the loth Alabama Regiment in 1863, he saw action in the Virginia campaign, witnessed General Lee's surrender...