At the Navy's Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. two white-faced ensigns with new golden wings sparkling on the breasts of their uniforms were tried by court-martial. On a bright March morning Ensign Paul C. Brown, 22, had dived a training plane low over farm workers in a turnip field near Robertsdale, Ala., because it was fun to scare them. Ensign Joseph C. Thompson, 23, riding with him, had done nothing to make him stop. On the dive on the frightened workers, Pilot Brown flew too low, scraped the ground. His wing sliced the head off a woman worker, 38-year-old...
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