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Died. Navy Captain William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, 45, whose daring, happy-go-lucky exploits as a World War II dive-bomber squadron commander made him a flying legend, earned him two citations for the Navy Cross; in a training-plane crash; near Corpus Christi, Texas...
...Jimmy Thach has had enough of the beach for a while. He wants to get out to battle, update tactics once again, because he thinks that in battle experience counts for more than youth. (Flatley is 36, O'Hare 28. the Navy's famed dive-bomber Gus Widhelm...
...Widhelm saw his men put seven 1,000-pounders into the Jap carrier. The Navy only claimed, the carrier damaged,* but Widhelm says: "If they can save a ship burning like that one was, we ought to get a new kind of bomb...
Japanese destroyers went right by Widhelm and Stokely-close enough for them to see Japanese grins. On the third day Stokely woke Widhelm from a sound sleep to point out a patrol plane circling for a landing, and said: "An angel's come from heaven, let's drink the rest of our water...
When he returned to his squadron Gus Widhelm remembered what he had said about the separation of the men from the boys. The flyers hoisted him to their shoulders and chanted: "Here...