[Ads-l] Antedating of "Wing-Man"

[Dan Goncharoff]

What sense of "wing-man" is this? August 1943 Popular Science has the sense
of "plane on leader's wing", without the hyphen.

On Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 4:22 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> wing-man (OED 1946)
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> 1943 Yank 26 Nov. 6  Lt. Milton Roach was my wing man.
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> Fred Shapiro
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