Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season, will again play in his usual position of 3/4, with Gwyn Thomas of Adams House relieving Loos on part of the conversion kicking. Holcombe of the V-12, who played in his first game last Saturday as forward, has been placed in the backfield as left-wing, with Don Cummings also of the V-12, playing on his right...
...British aces still top any U.S. pilots. Last week R.A.F. Wing Commander J. R. D. Braham shot down his 28th German plane near Copenhagen and Wing Commander J. E. Johnson got his 28th over France. Group Captain A.G. Malan is credited with 32, as was the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane. Canadian Flight Lieut. George ("Screwball") Beurling shot down 31 before he was grounded, and Wing Commander Standford Tuck had 29 when he was forced to bail out over Germany. U.S. aces had a chance to surpass any of these records, but Russian Major Alexander Pokryshkin's record...
...Said the wing commander: "It was a brave and gallant and heartbreaking thing...
Cavite was destroyed. Left without a base within 1,500 miles, Hart withdrew all of his puny fleet except a few auxiliaries, PTs, submarines. His wing of Catalina patrol boats disintegrated in glory. In northern Luzon, unhampered by warships or aircraft, waves of Japanese infantrymen poured ashore...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...