Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City, Pa., was ready to welcome home its hero, 25-year-old Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski, top-scoring Thunderbolt pilot of the Eighth Air Force and top U.S. ace. Gabby's fiancée, pretty Kay Cochran, 20, had made all the plans for a wedding...
...LYNN COCHRAN...
...Reader Cochran should get in touch with Robert Livingston Bailey, of the Civil Service Commission, Washington, B.C., who swears that he, too, has the original letter in question. It is not, he says, one of the Morris Plan Bank of Virginia's reproductions...
Startling and Invalid. Said the report acidly: the need "to recruit teen-aged schoolgirls, stenographers, clerks, beauticians, housewives and factory workers to pilot the military planes of this Government is as startling as it is invalid"; the militarization of Cochran's WASPs is not necessary or desirable; the present program should be immediately and sharply curtailed...
...Jackie Cochran maintained an anxious silence while Hap Arnold talked on. The committee kept its report in its desk. Ramspeck had not decided whether to release it officially or let the cold facts come out in debate when Cochran's WASPs are tossed onto the House floor...