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

[James Eric Lawson]

The Univ. of Calif. Yank volumes contain the Vol. 2 No. 23 issue, and
the reference to "wing man" is there on p. 6 (col. 3, antepenultimate
paragraph).

Univ. of Calif. volumes:

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000500681

"wing man" citation:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210010798880&view=1up&seq=649&size=125&q1=%22wing%20man%22


On 1/1/23 14:47, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Off-list, Fred told me that his latest batch of _Yank_ cites are drawn from:
> 
> Henry H. Jenkins, "The Diction of _Yank_: Colloquial Speech of the American
> Soldier of World War II as Found in Yank Magazine" (University of Florida
> Ph.D. dissertation, 1957)
> https://www.proquest.com/docview/301898972
> 
> I see that Jenkins defines "wing man" as "The pilot who flies on the wing
> of an air formation." The _Yank_ cite that Jenkins gives for that is from
> Vol. II, No. 23, p. 6, which he dates as Nov. 26, 1943 (as Fred wrote), but
> the cover date for that issue is evidently Nov. 21, 1943. Unfortunately
> that issue is missing from the archive here:
> 
> https://www.306bg.us/archives/htm/yank.htm
> 
> Internet Archive and HathiTrust also have issues of _Yank_, but nothing
> from 1943.
> 
> https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=yank1942
> 
> Anyone know of another _Yank_ archive?
> 
> --Ben
> 
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 3:19 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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)
>>>
>>> 1943 Yank 26 Nov. 6  Lt. Milton Roach was my wing man.
>>>
>>> Fred Shapiro
>>>
>>
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