Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born into a warring generation, and at 21 he sat in the cockpit of a fighter over the coast of France. Behind his Spitfire, with the green shamrock on its side, thundered the other ships in the command of the R.A.F.'s youngest Wing Commander (lieutenant colonel), the R.A.F.'s leading ace (32 planes): Brendan Finucane...
Paddy Finucane was on his last sweep. As he led his wing low over German installations on the French beach, his second-in-command saw something Paddy Finucane did not see: a small machine-gun post perched about 20 feet above the beach on a ridge of sand. It was not a regular gun post, with an emplacement and protecting sandbags, but just one machine gun on a tripod with two young men in German uniforms behind it. Finucane's second-in-command, whose name was Aikman, saw a burst from the machine gun go through Paddy...
Finucane replied: "I shall have to get out of this." Then, to his wing: "Hallo, wing commander calling. I've had it. Am turning...
Once Adolf Hitler was believed leary of onetime Midshipman Juan of the British navy. But Juan jilted his English sweetheart to marry, in Rome in 1935, his Bourbon-Sicily cousin, Princess Maria Mercedes. There he lived under the fascist wing until World War II sent him discreetly to Switzerland...
...them knew that, for better or for worse, Editor Ingersoll had given PM its character and direction-just as truly as Bertie McCormick has to the isolationist Chicago Tribune or Joe Patterson to the New York Daily News-and that to draft him was a blow at a wing of the press which also has a right to freedom and continued existence...