God is My Co Pilot sert L Scott WN
After West Point graduate Robert Scott wins his wings at Kelly Field and fights in combat. He is deemed too old for combat flying but wins a chance to fight to India as a bomber escort pilot. He becomes a ferry pilot, then a Kitty Hawk pilot, and soon leads to Burma with the 23rd Fighter Group. He shoots down Japanese planes despite hardships.
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West Point
Robert Scott
Kelly Field
Junio
India
Chennault
Burma
China
Kunming
Holloway
Bruce
Lochinvar
Welborn
Paoshan
Ching
Welhorn
Yunnan
Salween
Kutkai
Lashio
General Chennault
Caleb Haynes
Doctor Gentry
Gissimo
Wong
Shu
Chihkiang
Kweyang
Kwey
Major Shu
CHENNAULT FLYING FIGHTER TALE THROUGH CHINA AND BURMA
The narrative follows aerial combat over Gia Lam and the Salween front in late 1941 into October, detailing fighter engagements, truck and tanker interdictions, and crashes. It honors pilot courage, lamenting losses while highlighting General Chennault, Colonel Cooper, and Maj. Haynes guiding a bombers campaign from Kunming, with extensive depictions of hardships and leadership.
Ernie Pyle Describes Africa to Pacific War Coverage
Ernie Pyle recounts the Algeria convoy experience with GIs, describing crowded troop ships, cold water, and British contrasts. The piece notes a Hollywood level enlisted men show aboard, including Jon Corita’s burlesque, set amid looming U‑boat threats and frontline preparations as troops bivouac around Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers.
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Gibraltar
Jon Corita
Brooklyn
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy
Joe
Germany
Men Anxious to Move After Fret Phase Ends
Anxious troops express confidence and enthusiasm as they move beyond the fret phase of invasion. They recall the landing night with humor, noting officers and jeeps nearly misadventure and soldiers scrambling to their posts despite rough shore contact.
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England
Columbus Tall Dignified Redheaded Says Prof
Professor Daniel Sargeant of Haverford University argues that Christopher Columbus was tall and well built with red hair and beard in youth, a long ruddy face, gray eyes, and an acquiline nose. By middle age his hair had turned white before his voyage in 1492, he adds.
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Christopher Columbus
America
Daniel Sargeant
Haverford University
Columbus
Sargeant
I'd Have Been a Goner. 2
Survivor recalls Normandy near St Lo where a shell fragment wounded him and Army nurses saved him with plasma. He credits nurses for perseverance and urges joining the Army Nurse Corps to support wounded soldiers.
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Normandy
St. Lo
Army Nurse Corps
Army
Red Cross
U S. Army
Washington
D. C
U. S Army Nurse Corps
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God Is MY
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L. Scott WN
1-45
Gia Lam Field
Birma
Lashie
Lungling
AVG
Bruce Holloway
Chefang
Daniels
Pat Daniels
Maj
Morgan
Baysa
Indo-China
Christianes
Wang Cook
Georgia
Scotty
Rangoon
Col
Meriam C. Cooper
Cooper
Chungking
Kosciusko
Poland
Persia
Siam
Africa
Pan-American Airways
Hongkong
Solomons
Saigon
Victoria Harbor
Generals House
Kowloon
Haynes
Ferry Command
Radio Tokyo
Air Corps
Ernie Pyle
Algeria
Pyle
Gis
Inalgeria
Con
Voy
Russia
Mur‘mansk
Norway
Iceland
North
Campefe
Ife
Mediterranean
North Africa
Oran
Casablanca
Algiers
Sewing
Nedlecraft
Fed W. Randolph
Chicago
Prof
Mt Cree Act
Tama
Yamanolo
Fam
John Schuster
Stelton
New Jersey
Beomon
U. S. Army
Nurse Corps
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