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...Lieut. Colonel Peterson is younger but not four years younger than the late Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner...
...Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...
Being offered one of the biggest war jobs was one proof. Being permitted to talk his way out of it and into new, enlarged powers as Petroleum Coordinator was an even greater one. Then came the final tribute from Chairman William R. Boyd Jr. of the Petroleum Industry War Council (a real, live businessman): "[This] is deeply gratifying to me personally and I am sure that it will be to every oil man in the country." Mr. Ickes' new powers over oil may have little practical value, since he was exercising them anyway, but they give him the blessing...
...Harlow again," said Hu Flung Huey ocC. "I am afraid the Cloud-busters have Moran the ball than we have. They must Seymour from there than Moister people can from the third Storey. They look like a Boyd up there. I hope they can Hadley get down. Last week I hurt my Hibbard it's all right...
...best soldiers'-eye-accounts of the war, Commandos reaches a climax of anti-theatrics when Lieut. Thomas Wilson Boyd describes his part in the March raid on the St. Nazaire submarine base. Assigned to draw fire away from the destroyer Campbeltown, Boyd had, says he, an "easy job." All he had to do was to take his motor gunboat into the river, get in the crossbeams of the German searchlights and stay there...