Word: winant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 22-year-old son of the Ambassador to Britain, missing in action after his Flying Fortress was shot down in the Münster raid in mid-October, turned out to be alive and well in a German prison camp...
...guests in the panelled dining hall at Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers. They ate quietly, spoke softly and seldom. U.S. Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman was there, as was Commander C. R. Thompson, Mr. Churchill's personal aide, and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
...Reported Missing in Action over Münster: Lieut. John G. Winant, Jr., 21, son of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Missing in Action. Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 21, older son of the Ambassador to Britain; after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes...
Second Lieut. John G. Winant Jr., the Ambassador's son, who after a raid on Germany flew a Fortress with 75 flak holes safely to Africa, won a promotion to first lieutenant...