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Taking a pass from wingman Lou Nichols, Bob Baldwin faked out the Commuter goalie and scored the lone goal for the Puritans midway in the last period...
...battle over Korea's MIG Alley one day last week, Major George A. Davis Jr., greatest of U.S. jet fighter aces, chopped down two Communist MIG-15s, his 13th and 14th kills in the Korean war. With a wingman, he swept past ten more MIGs looking for the day's third victim...
Amory Hubbard tallied the eventual winning tally on the prettiest goal of the night (and the season), with the Crimson down a man' Grabbing the rubber at his own blue line, the wiry wingman skated down the boards, eluded Indian Irv Sherwood, and, although booked from behind, managed to poke the disk through goalie Dick McMahon's legs, ending up in the goal himself, on top of McMahon and the puck...
...subject of this observation is Major George Andrew Davis Jr., 31, top ace in the Korean air war. Davis arrived in October, flew ten missions as a wingman, became a squadron leader in November. In the unbelievably short span of 17 days, he shot down nine MIGs and three twin-engine Red bombers. Last week Davis brought down four enemy jets in one day for a record bag. "It's just my job, my business," he says. "And I think it's a pretty good profession...
...much credit to the unsung wingmen-whose primary job is not to down MIGs but to protect their leaders. Davis has never brought his plane back bearing a trace of battle damage. Last week, on the day he downed four MIGs, he chased two MIGs away from his own wingman's tail...