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Army pursuit pilots never spoke of "Buzz" Wagner except in superlatives. He was to them the best, the bravest, the hottest pilot-and the swellest guy-in the Air Forces. They said he could buzz the camouflage off the top of a hangar without touching it. Once, in the Philippines, he shot down a Jap Zero while he was flying upside down. He knew how to get between the Japs and the sun, then pop them off while they were blinded...
...Buzz Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...
...Force. Among the men on Bataan Wagner attained the proportions of a superman. After the first few hours his P-4O squadron had nearly all its planes shot down or destroyed on the ground. Buzz and a few others carried on, strafing airfields as soon as the Japs landed planes on them, tossing bombs and hand grenades out of their cockpits, even sinking small transports with .50-caliber bullets. One day over Vigan, Buzz and Russ Church saw 30 newly arrived Jap bombers lined up on the field. Two Zeros intercepted. Lieut. Church got one, Lieut. Wagner the other. Church...
Publisher Elias Manchester Boddy of the Los Angeles Daily News gazes at no crystal and reads no stars. But when the National Recovery Act went into effect in 1933, Boddy wrote: "It will eventually be thrown out." When the Wagner Act was passed, he said: "Labor regards [it] as a Magna Charta, whereas it will prove to be merely a license for a nationwide fight for union leadership." Months before it happened, Boddy foresaw the German-Russian alliance. Last September he was on the button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will...
...British M.P.s declared in the House of Commons that British prisoners in Italy are allowed to hear only Italian and German music, while British authorities continue to give German and Italian prisoners liberal rations of Wagner, Brahms and Verdi...