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Quonset opened the scoring in the second with two men out, when left fielder Siegfried singled to right field. Priebe then grounded to Jack Falsey, Crimson shortstop, who bobbled the ball and threw to first basemen "Slats" Slattery. Slattery dropped the ball, and the man was safe. Bill Lutz, presuming...
He had official-looking papers purporting to show that he had been grounded from combat duty, that he was on leave, that he had been promoted from first lieutenant to captain. Tall, handsome, correct, he cut a figure with starry-eyed girls. By watching his talk, by not getting drunk...
Day after he put down his Lockheed Lightning on his home base, Dick Bong became a major. He had also a clear claim to the title "U.S. ace of aces," which had been claimed earlier by an unwary Eighth Air Force public relations officer in England for Mustang Pilot Don...
The "ace business" in U.S. fighter forces got out of bounds last week. The publicity-conscious Eighth Air Force made the whole business absurd by crediting a 23-year-old Mustang pilot, Captain Don Gentile (pronounced genteel) with 30 planes. Reason: seven of the planes had been shot up on...
"Pop" Polifka was grounded. "He fought like a stuck pig to dice Cassino," said an officer on Lieut. General Ira Eaker's staff in Italy, "but the General just wouldn't let him go on another mission."