Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named for Navy Lieut. Max Silverstein, lost when the Destroyer Sims went down in the Battle of the Coral...
...bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group's four to ten 1,000-lb.-bomb hits on the carrier. And while Don Felt's bombers kept the Japanese busy, Lieut. Bruce Harwood roared in with his torpedo planes from both sides and scored a crippling hit. Loss to the Japanese: Ryujo. Reward for Don Felt: the hallowed Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and distinguished service...
...Djakarta, in evident eagerness to keep alive the new friendship with the U.S., Sukarno made no big show of the prize captive, but left the announcement to be made by the military commander at Amboina, Lieut. Colonel Herman Pieters. Pieters was himself briefly a member of the rebel colonels. He quoted Pilot Pope as saying that he had been hired by the rebels at $10,000 a month and had flown most of the destructive missions over East Indonesia in which foreign and native shipping was sunk and damaged (TIME, May 12). Pope, a serious and not a swashbuckling type...
...general ordered Lieut. Colonel George Flint, Canadian chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been...
...said Manning, the boats were given to the New York wing of the CAP, and the contact man there was one Lieut. Colonel Hugh M. Pierce, an Eastern Air Lines pilot who flies the Miami-New York...