In the private records of the War Department are the names of 64 living War- time aviators each of whom destroyed five or more enemy aircraft. Officially their names are not differentiated from those of any other Air Corps veterans. Unofficially, however, they are rated as "aces." They would presumably be exceptionally useful to their country in the event of another war. But last week the War Department regretfully announced that it had lost track of almost half of its aces, sought through the public prints the whereabouts of 28 of them....
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