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

[Ben Zimmer]

Thanks, James. And now I see the reason for the discrepancy between the
date given by Henry H. Jenkins (and Fred), and the dates on the 306th Bomb
Group site (306bg.us) -- the latter is an archive of the British edition,
not the US edition.

--Ben

On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 8:30 PM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:

> Correction: the second URL I sent overshot by a page, and the reference
> to "wing man" is in the 4th paragraph from the end on p. 6:
>
>
> https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210010798880&view=1up&seq=648&q1=%22wing%20man%22
>
> On 1/1/23 17:24, James Eric Lawson wrote:
> > 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
>

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