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[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC AVMC (USA)]

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Chicago IL _Daily times_ 9 Apr 1943 p 3 col 3 [genealogybank]
"it was bombers' weather and the zoomies put in a busy day over Kiska."


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> "Zoomie" has  applied to naval and other military aviators since WWII.  In fact,
> it seems to have originated in the Navy.  The Air Force used to prefer
> "flyboy."
> 
> HDAS had a lot more exx. (all later), but these seem to have disappeared into
> the cyberdepths, along with much else.
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> 1943 Chicago Daily Times (Apr. 28) 22:  Lt. Charles E. Rodebaugh, U.S.N., is a
> Zoomie – PPC of a PBY Catalina patrol seaplane.
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> "PPC" = "patrol plane commander.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:28 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > zoomies
> >
> > First time that I've seen this in print written by anyone except me.
> > At the now-defunct Tempelhof AFB, GI's who worked there referred to
> > their Air Force compatriots as "zoomies," back in 1961.
> >
> > In the context quoted above, _jarheads_ mostly likely = "marines," the
> > Navy's army. So, "zoomies," in this case, may refer not to airmen, but
> > to the Naval Air Forces and/or to Marine Corps Aviation.
> >
> > Think about that. The Navy not only has its own army and its own air
> > force, but also the Navy's army even has *its* own air force.
> >
> > Baseball-legend Ted Williams is probably the most-famous Marine Corps
> > zoomie, having been a fighter-pilot during World War II and during the
> > Korean War.


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