Word: widhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another attacker got Widhelm's oil cooler. He put his plane in a tight corkscrew which no Zero could follow (Gus used to be a stunter), landed in the water and got into his rubber raft with Stokely...
Lieutenant Commander William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, U.S.N., was the skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
...Zero attacked Gus Widhelm-Jap aviators are trained to attack the squadron leader. "I pulled my nose up," Widhelm says, "and put my bead just about half a cowling above him and held the fire right there until he flew into it. He burst into flames...