Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England last week arrived the first Australian contingent, a full squadron of trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
...second 5 to 3, and tied the third 6 to 6 the forward combines showed that they had come a long way since the season's start. Rob Perkins was changed to right defense filling Sherm Gray's position, while Rob Gorham held down the left wing position on the first forward line. With Gray back in action tomorrow. Perkins will probably be shifted up to the forward line...
Last week the left-wing Oregon Commonwealth Federation circulated initiative petitions to get Franklin Roosevelt's name on the May 17 primary ballot. Federation officials maliciously challenged John Nance Garner to file in the primary, jeered: "If your Oregon sponsors have difficulty securing requisite signatures, we offer you assistance...
Exasperated by such belittling, and badly in need of some victory talk in the face of Germany's naval reverses last fortnight, Air Marshal Hermann Göring last week caused Lieut. Colonel Karl Schumacher, in command of the wing assigned to protect Germany's northwest sea approaches, to appear in the theatre hall of the Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem...