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...ship's skipper is Paul Ramsey, 48, a trim-mustached four-striper (Annapolis '27), a top-notch Navy flyer in World War II, who is prone to roar "What the Hell!" when things go wrong in combat. The 3,000 officers and men call him "Captain Paul," and he refers to his crew as "Ramsey's Little Lamseys...
...naval aviator, and both a brave and fearful man. He was brave enough to be chosen to go in low and attack the enemy bridges at Toko-ri in Korea; he was honestly fearful of the heavy Communist flak, of the icy sea in which a ditched flyer could last only 20 minutes, and, indeed, of landing a jet on a pitching carrier...
When Brubaker is first seen in James Michener's short new novel, The Bridges at Toko-ri,* he has ditched his damaged jet and is being rescued, half-frozen, by a helicopter team. To the task-force commander, every flyer's life is precious; but this griping fellow, so like one of his own flyer sons lost in the Pacific, is a special concern. Talking to Brubaker after the rescue, the admiral asks: "Still bitter?" And he gets the answer: "Sometimes I'm so bitter I could bitch up the works on purpose . . . Nobody supports this...
...Voted unanimously to grant permanent U.S. residence to Polish Flyer Franciszek Jarecki, who liberated a MIG and himself in Denmark (TIME...
...request, Flyer Jimy Doolittle, 1932 trophy winner, dropped his ashes over Cleveland from a plane...