Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Were Expendable (MGM) is an adaptation of William L. White's best-selling war book of 1942. On the screen it is a leisurely story of how the small PT boats put up a big fight around the Philippine Islands. The fight is carried on by a squadron of heroes skippered by smooth, hard-hitting Lieut. Robert Montgomery* and rough, romantic Lieut, (j.g.) John Wayne. Captain John Ford, who produced and directed the picture, allowed his men to be much more natural than most Hollywood heroes, kept his music low, achieved a feeling of reality rare...
Rules for Peace. Tom Hardin, who earned his wings in the 101st Aero Squadron in 1917, started out as a barnstormer...
...Navy wife in Washington, listening to the radio, recognized the lyrics. Her Annapolis-trained husband, Captain William Gordon ("Slim") Beecher, who commands a destroyer squadron in Tokyo Bay, wrote them. Mrs. Beecher remembered that some of her husband's 116 previous compositions had done well-his Song of Old Hawaii had been a 1938 hit. Passing up no bets, Mrs. Beecher visited the copyright office next...
...Western Pacific fleet was annihilated under command of a Dutch admiral, while the principal squadron of three American and two Australian heavy cruisers, to protect the landing at Guadalcanal, was surprised and sunk under the British Admiral Crutchley...
...flying squadron of them turned up at Brooklyn's High School for Homemaking, there found some of the girls mad because the school's evening socials had been dropped. Out on strike went a gang of girls, with the war cry: "It's an old maid's institution...