The welcome absence of wind gave our airmen a chance of which they took full advantage by gathering much information.
The work of the British airmen during the battle was one of the brightest pages.
There seems to be no end to the dangers which beset submarine-sailors and airmen.
This initial volume tells how the hero ran away from his miserly guardian, fell in with a successful airman, and became a young aviator of note.
When the airman took another leap towards earth, her heart stopped beating altogether.
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It is a fine collection of flying stories largely compiled from the accounts of the airmen involved.
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It was the soldiers, sailors and airmen who quickly acquired the worst reputation as obstacles to a transnational approach to disarmament.
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When the clothing is worn out, will the airmen have to pay for it by stoppages?
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I thought he said that soldiers and sailors and airmen after the war prize these medals very much indeed and more than during operations.
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As for the airmen themselves, their prowess had become legendary.
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There was a temporary shortage of airmen's shirts at this station, but this has now been overcome.
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I hope that clothing coupons will be issued to airmen on home stations next month.
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At the side of them—again it looked to me like thousands—there were numerous six feet steel airmen's cupboards all left open.
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To categorise those young soldiers, sailors and airmen as children is wrong.
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In so far as greater payments are sometimes made for billeted soldiers, sailors and airmen, it is because additional services are being provided.
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They are insisting upon giving our sailors, soldiers and airmen what they need.
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The lives of our soldiers, sailors and airmen and of our women and children depend on the increased production of those on war work.
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Soldiers, sailors and airmen will naturally reflect the society they come from and the nation's drug problems centre around youth.
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We are too liable to forget that not only soldiers, sailors and airmen lose their lives in war.
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There must be suitable machinery to meet the cases of individual hardship among soldiers, sailors and airmen.
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