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...says the Coast Guard only guards the coast?" screamed a red-faced, grimy gun-pointer...
...just arrived in the Solomons, shot down his first enemy plane. Charley picked off one of the four that Tommy had run down his way. The coincidence made that day's combat reports remarkably fine reading for their father, Lieut. Colonel Thomas G. Lanphier Sr., a West Pointer who won his pilot's wings in World War I, later resigned to survey commercial air routes and is now on duty again with the General Staff in Washington...
Kehoe had volunteered for the job. A West Pointer of the class of 1918, he resigned from the Army soon after World War I, asked for active service again after Pearl Harbor. British officials, whose effective administration stops short at Nagaland, soberly advised against his mission; but after a thorough aerial reconnaissance of the saw-toothed, jungle-matted mountain ranges, Trader Kehoe jumped off with their qualified blessings...
...West Pointer Andrews was not a onesided air general; he held that blockade and attrition by all weapons offered the sure way to bring the Axis down. But flying was his great passion. He had about 6,000 hours on Army planes, and was an expert pilot even at 59. A flyer who knew him remarked, after hearing of the crash: "I'll bet Andy is bitching right now because he didn't take over that landing himself." And all the General's friends knew he had been ready for something like this a long time...
With three minutes left, Bill Logan, Princeton coach, threw his reserves into the game. The subs managed one two-pointer and a foul while Dan Shields was converting a free toss for the Crimson. Palmer tallied 18 points to remain in the running for League scoring honors...