Word: flyering
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...battleship finally came into its own. After Pearl Harbor many misinformed people thought they knew the answer when ex-Navy Flyer Al Williams asked: "What has any battleship done to date, in this war, but sink?" Midway and Alexander De Seversky between them reinforced this feeling, by overstressing the great importance of aircraft (particularly land-based planes) over the sea, and fostering the assumption that in all naval situations airplanes would be as dominant as they were at Midway...
...usual there is one carefree pilot who has to combat the dislike of his companions, sober up after causing the death of a conscientious man, and finally redeem himself by a glorious death while on a dangerous volunteer mission. This time the flyer is John Carroll, who does a better-than-average job with the part, but it doesn't make much difference because the idea is so hackneyed by now. On hand also to fill a necessary part of the old triangle is nurse and war worker Anna Lee. Her heart belongs to the handsome squadron commander, John Wayne...
...means an awful lot to a flyer-having confidence in the guy who's running the show. With the General, if it's not right, he won't let you do it. Some of us want to go over to Africa and be with him there...
...Eisenhower is a young general (52), and under him, in vital points of command, are young men. Youngest is 45-year-old Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, the weather-beaten little man who led U.S. bombers over Tokyo and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit. Daredevil flyer, Jimmy Doolittle has a long list of aviation "firsts." He was first to span the continent in a single day, first Army pilot to do the hazardous outside loop, first to try an experimental kind of blind flight. Jimmy Doolittle is in command of Eisenhower's air force...
Clyde Pangborn, famed 'round-the-world flyer of 1931, now an RAFerryman, was sued in Montreal by his wife for $400 a month separate maintenance. Barbara Bennett Downey Randall, sister of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett, lost her fight for custody of her five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife...