Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over New Britain, U.S. fighter pilots saw their squadron leader, 23-year-old Army Major Edward Cragg Jr. (TIME, Nov. 29), close with a silver Jap fighter, knew he had found the man he had been looking for. Major Cragg, second ranking U.S. ace in the Southwest Pacific (17 planes), for days had been still-hunting the Jap pilot who had apparently shot down about a dozen U.S. craft...
...Desk. Because Pappy had just recovered from a broken leg and was getting along in years (he is all of 31) someone had tried to put him behind a desk. A hell-raiser by temperament, he stirred up such a row that someone had another thought, gave him a squadron no one else wanted: a bunch of casual transfer and replacement pilots, well-trained but never welded into a team...
...Other Marine Corsair squadron records: Hellhawks, 104; Wolfpack, 86; Swashbucklers, 33; Eightballs, 28; Flying Deuces...
...said that his country was doing all in its power to prevent repetition of such an event as the Panay affair. "The naval officer who was in command of the aircraft squadron in Shanghai has been dismissed and recalled home," Saito revealed. "All other necessary steps are being and will be taken so that guarantees of safety will be assured all foreign persons and interests in the future...
Famed abroad as official mascot of the squadron, Lady Moe grew less & less loved at home. Secret cuffs and kicks began to come her way. The public-relations officer of the base, to whom falls the task of handling Lady Moe's correspondence, transport and social arrangements, openly lamented the day she left Africa. Said he: "I joined the Air Forces to serve my country and look at me. I'm nothing but nursemaid to a goddamned jackass...