Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn on Feb. 16, a date which will be ringed in red on many a Navy calendar, the carriers turned into the wind to launch planes. Mitscher had been almost as far as this before: he was skipper of the Hornet when she carried Doolittle's daring little squadron toward Tokyo. But in the intervening 34 months, America's seaborne air force had grown beyond recognition. Now, hundreds of planes circled the carriers as they formed up: for two simultaneous dawn strikes, there were (by Jap count) 300 planes in each attack group...
Married. Major General Ralph Royce, 54, muscular ex-commander of the U.S.French First Tactical Air Force in France, onetime Chief of Staff for Air, Southwest Pacific, who led the first aerial squadron in France in 1917, the first Australia-based bombing of Japs on Luzon in 1942; and Agnes Berges, 36, ex-Manhattan hotel executive and overseas Red Cross worker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Detroit...
...never missed a show"). From a fatherly old stage carpenter on the fly gallery he hears the history of the little music hall's gallant struggle to carry on during the blitz, and the love story of its leading lady, Rosalind Bruce (Miss Hayworth), and a handsome R.A.F. squadron leader (Lee Bowman...
...soldiers. The division had long ago been mechanized-but it was still cavalry at heart and its' oldtimers still talked nostalgically of the stable call and of night marches to the rattle of horse accoutrements. In the 1st Division a company was still a troop, a battalion a squadron. Knife-nosed, 46-year-old Major General Verne Donald Mudge was its commander, a cavalryman since he left West Point...
...task force of Mudge's troopers, under Brigadier General William Curtis Chase, swung wide into the foothills flanking Manila. At 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3 (25 days after the landing at Lingayen), the 2nd Squadron of the historic 8th Regiment burst into the city from the east. So the 1st Cavalry Division had won the race-and not even the Buckeyes could say there was no justice in the fact: the 1st had sworn to strike a blow for their onetime brigade commander, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, now in Jap hands. This...