Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a covey of pigeons fluttering into an alley, a squadron of U.S. light bombers swooped down through the North African mountains. The field on which it lighted was bare of anything that would identify it as an airdrome. But trucks began to arrive with equipment. Men swarmed over the plateau. Within 24 hours of their landing, the bombers were off on their first mission...
...squadron had been encamped for several days in the cold, inhospitable desert, irritable and impatient as only bomber pilots can be when bad weather holds them from their target. Then the message came from headquarters: "Bomb the quays and shipping at Sousse...
Technicolor movies of the U. S. Mountain Troops will be shown tomorrow night at the Cadet Armory in Boston at 8:15 o'clock. "Ski Patrol" shows action shots of the ace Army schussers in training at Camp Hale, Colorado, and this showing is sponsored by the First Motor Squadron of the State Guard. Tickets can be obtained at the Coop or the door...
Bullet Lou Kirn (he got his nickname and his cagey heart at Annapolis, playing football) was all Navy: a bear for work, a hater but an understander of red tape, not a liberty hound, never so tired he could not jack his tired men. Bob Milner, the squadron's Executive Officer, was the opposite of relaxed Lou Kirn. In the cockpit he jumped around like a monkey, twisting knobs, pushing levers, pulling his hood open and slamming it shut again, punching out Morse-code messages to his wingmen with his fist. But he was a smooth flyer...
Emory S. ("Red") Wages Jr., the pudgy genial Georgian who regaled the squadron's junior officers with tales of his amours, went out on a search one day, tapped out a last message about low gas, and went in. Oran ("Fig") Newton Jr., who had animal nicknames for most of the boys, such as Al Dog for Wright and Red Bird for Wages, was shot out of a dive by A.A. That was all: two pilots. Four enlisted men are missing...