Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ashcanaso who was aptly nicknamed "Honest Abe" has departed from his detachment after leaving an indeliable print on the hearts of the men. "Honest Abe" ably handled squadron duties during the absence of Captain Lyman L. Woodman and Lt. Carlton L. Ericksen. Among his many talents is the abilitty to speak seven languages fluently. The favorite act of his repertoire is an imitation of Herr Hitler during one of Hitlor's many stormy speeches to the German Reich...
...target. Ten minutes later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that effective aid for the convoy could...
...Navy men know that they rate the attention they get. On the night of Oct. 14-15, when the Jap made one of his biggest bids to retake Guadalcanal, it was a squadron of PTs, out on their first mission, that thundered into his "Bougainville express." Off Lunga Point, Lieut. Commander Alan Montgomery slipped in behind three destroyers while they were hammering away at Henderson Field...
General Saunders and Captain Foss are far from alone. Another squadron leader named John C. Waldron made history at Midway. Remember? And a young lieut. commander, John H. Morrill, took his men from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat. And the McNickle twins are flying bombers over Europe. And there's "Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they...
Major Heflin has been a squadron commander at Chanute Field, Illinois. He was Headmaster of Greenbriar Military School in West Virginia for about ten years, and he has been a Reserve officer since 1924. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts, and has a wife and three children. In the first week of June, 1942, he was made Commandant of the Statisticians at Harvard...