Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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1944 Annual Jim Zanutto edita ut clUejj Pat Chesebro aAAUta tt editla Gerald Williams a t edito Carl Machover huAi+teAA manage DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL DAVENPORT. IOWA VOLUME 27

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 Sky Anchors Aweigh and off we'll go into that wild blue yonder with the members of our armed services in the air corps. Over the battlefields of Europe and the South Pacific the war birds of the United States are challenging the foe to achieve that victory — a Victory Through Air-Power. But before serving his country in air-battles of the war the American pilot goes through an inten- sive training period that makes him equal in skill, coordination, and daring to any of his adver- saries. It's a long tough grind from the time the recruit enters a classification center until that glorious day when a pair of glittering wings is pinned on his proud chest. Out of groups of men such as these have come the Joe Fosses, Herbert Boyingtons, Rich- ard Bongs, and Don Gentiles. Along with the pilot have come his co-workers —the navigator, the gunner, the bombardier, the radioman, the mechanic, —all combining to make an unbeatable team. And so to former students who are now fighting for us or who have fought gallantly and given their lives in the air corps, we dedicate this 1944 Blackhawk Annual. Men of the air corps, we salute you! The Editors j