Just after 10 one morning last week, Mrs. Mary S. Dempsey, 38, and Mrs. Bertha E. Johnston, 53, teed off down the tree-lined seventh fairway of the Timuquana Country Club at Jacksonville. At the same time, at the nearby Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Ensign Charles L. Greenwood took off in a Corsair fighter on a training mission.
Minutes later the two women lined their second shots toward the green. Overhead the Corsair's engine coughed and failed. Greenwood rolled the fighter into a vertical bank, hoping to get back to the airfield, or at...
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