Word: vivisection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbus, LeMay was fascinated with flight. At Ohio State, he busied himself with ROTC In 1928 he obtained a reserve commission and left for a National Guard summer camp. His classmates tore off to Los Angeles for weekends, but LeMay in his singleminded fashion often hung back to vivisect engines and study weather charts and navigation. With his accumulating skill as pilot, mechanic and navigator, he was summoned after seven years in fighters to fly the first of the Army's Flying Fortresses...
Although Coach Bob Pickett must have enjoyed watching his lightweights systematically vivisect their men, the 50 or 60 fans gathered for the occasion liked the 160 and 167-pound matches best...