Word: widhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
They were almost smack in the middle of the Jap task force. Lieut. "Benny" Moore, his bald, bowlegged, Texas flight officer, led the others in, and Widhelm had to watch his attack theories from a raft. His main idea: the only way to escape anti-aircraft fire and yet make a hit is to start the dive higher than the books say, end it lower. On top of that, he would make the plane oscillate most of the way down so as not to be a fixed target...
...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...