Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good shot at a German, found his gas tank near the wing root, fired into it and into the front of his cockpit till his plane started to smoke and he rolled over on a wing and headed for the ground in flames...
...wrote London Daily Mirror's Cassandra last month of Acting Wing Commander Douglas Robert Stewart Bader, 31, who has no legs. Last week the British race was suddenly without his services...
...Room 605 of Phillips House, the private wing of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, a soldier lay dying. He was just able to hear, just able to smile when they gave him the prized Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal, with this citation from the Secretary of War: "Adna R. Chaffee, Major General, United States Army. For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services . . . outstanding foresight, judgment and leadership in organizing and commanding the Armored Force of the Army...
...Army Air Forces (90% enlisted regulars), engaged in the fascinating project of taking wing...
...Navy's Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. two white-faced ensigns with new golden wings sparkling on the breasts of their uniforms were tried by court-martial. On a bright March morning Ensign Paul C. Brown, 22, had dived a training plane low over farm workers in a turnip field near Robertsdale, Ala., because it was fun to scare them. Ensign Joseph C. Thompson, 23, riding with him, had done nothing to make him stop. On the dive on the frightened workers, Pilot Brown flew too low, scraped the ground. His wing sliced the head off a woman worker...