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...fierce fighting over the Southwest Pacific came a new legend for the children of airmen. Last week in New Guinea pilots were still talking about the final exploit of Major Ralph Cheli-("pronounced Kelly," said a friend of his, "as in Colin Kelly...
Positively Necessary Urge. Later, as an instructor (he trained Colin Kelly), Scott learned to study every pupil to see if he had the "positively necessary . . . urge for combat." To his surprise he discovered that "many of them still thought it was wrong to want to get in the air against an enemy," were content just to fly for airlines. When not flying or teaching, Scott collected orchids-"these beautiful plants" -which he grows for a hobby...
...Long Retreat. Frank Kurtz lost his plane and his entire crew. From the control tower of the field, later on, he watched Colin Kelly die. Kurtz heard a plane coming in, looked up at the low-hanging clouds. Eight parachutes dropped from them; then he saw "a dark object go hurtling into the ground." That was Kelly, who stuck with the ship until it was too late for his own chute to open...
John Maurice Field, Sidney Stuyvesant Fish, Ernest Lewis Fisher, Robert Thomas Fisher, George Ezekiel George, Jay Wallace Gleason, Eliot Reed, Godin, Morris Gray, George Russell Harding, Jr., Paul Hart, Howard Thomas Healy, John Leslie Hoffman, Colin Alexander Houston, Willard Peele Hunnewell, Marshall Sheldon Katze, Paul Dudley Lamson, Jr., Burton Ralph Lewkowitz, Caleb Loring, Jr., Gerald Callan McCarthy, Robert Edwin McNair, David Martin, William McLeod Mayger, Robert Evan Meyer, Berkeley Davis More, Maurice Tirso Obregon...
...Colin F. N. Irving...