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...launched 45 strikes in a period of a few months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry Howard Caldwell, who calmly flew his plane back from Rabaul on Nov. 5, 1943 with a dead photographer and a wounded gunner aboard, a plane with 154 bullet holes and one wheel and half an aileron gone, was behaving like an Annapolis plebe at one of the Navy football games-which also helped to make Caldwell famous...
...China as in England, General LeMay will be insistent on hard precise work by pilots and mechanics, will set men back coldly and impersonally if they fail. In an attack on Germany months ago, LeMay's ball-turret gunner called him on the inter phone to announce that his guns (which should have been readied on the ground) would not fire. Replied Pilot LeMay coolly from up front: "You're going to look pretty silly when the 1905 start coming...
...marines pointed out Sergeant Al Goguen, onetime cab driver, holder of the Silver Star, unofficially credited with killing 700 Japs on two successive nights. But Al said: "Everybody tries to snow the folks. I had two machine guns, and I grabbed the guns a couple of times when my gunner got shot, until the assistant gunner came up. But that was my job. . . . Those figures? God, I don't know how many Japs we got. Everybody tries to snow the folks, give them a line...
...blue, looking very much like a boy in costume, stepped up to shake Mitch's hand. Mitch whirled, grabbed the boy by the shoulders and all but kissed him. The two stood smiling-grinning into each other's faces. The boy was Mitch's machine gunner. A photographer rushed up: "Throw your arms around him, like you're glad...
...bashful." Mitch and the machine-gunner just kept smiling at each other, saying nothing, ignoring the photographer...