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- noun A standard wooden
clothespin with a metal spring, used to hold gels to thebarn doors of cinema lights.
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After a series of hops in transport planes across India—touching down in Karachi, Agra, Bombay, and Madras—and getting lost in heavy fog over the Bay of Bengal in a C-47 that was rapidly running out of fuel, Jane finally reached Ceylon on July 12.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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After a series of hops in transport planes across India—touching down in Karachi, Agra, Bombay, and Madras—and getting lost in heavy fog over the Bay of Bengal in a C-47 that was rapidly running out of fuel, Jane finally reached Ceylon on July 12.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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He named his C-47 cargo plane "the Old Fox" after Nats owner Clark Griffith.
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Welcome Home. p.p.s. Check out MSGT Earl Macon and a C-47 that crashed approximately one mile short of the runway in Taiwan.
WILLIAM HOLDEN 2010
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The outer islands had not been “cased completely,” as their C-47 junket plane had been grounded, but it would get done.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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The outer islands had not been “cased completely,” as their C-47 junket plane had been grounded, but it would get done.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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John T. Downey, now 80, and Richard G. Fecteau, now 82, flew into Manchuria in the back of C-47 to pick up a Chinese courier, one of a team of agents who were to be part of a CIA effort to promote guerrilla operations that would destabilize the government of Mao Zedong, and later divert Chinese resources from the war in Korea.
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John T. Downey, now 80, and Richard G. Fecteau, now 82, flew into Manchuria in the back of C-47 to pick up a Chinese courier, one of a team of agents who were to be part of a CIA effort to promote guerrilla operations that would destabilize the government of Mao Zedong, and later divert Chinese resources from the war in Korea.
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John T. Downey, now 80, and Richard G. Fecteau, now 82, flew into Manchuria in the back of C-47 to pick up a Chinese courier, one of a team of agents who were to be part of a CIA effort to promote guerrilla operations that would destabilize the government of Mao Zedong, and later divert Chinese resources from the war in Korea.
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the bazooka one of the crucial "tools of victory" for the Allies in World War II, along with the C-47 transport plane, the Jeep and the atomic bomb.
Edward Uhl, 92; helped invent bazooka, headed Fairchild Industries 2010
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