The Gooney Bird Makes a Pin-point Landing. Numbed on the wing by the thundering guns of a Coast guard-manned fighting ship at target practice somewhere in the South Pacific, this bird came in on a couple of wings and a prayer and made a pin-point landing on the helmet of Coast Guardsman George Lambrinos, Boatswain's mate second class, of New York City. Coast Guardsmen call the creature a Gooney Bird. Lambrinos, at his gun station, might well be modeling the latest millinery creations for the warswept Pacific. The Coast Guardsmen, who lives at 348 W. 48th Street in New York City, has a brother,


The Gooney Bird Makes a Pin-point Landing. Numbed on the wing by the thundering guns of a Coast guard-manned fighting ship at target practice somewhere in the South Pacific, this bird came in on a couple of wings and a prayer and made a pin-point landing on the helmet of Coast Guardsman George Lambrinos, Boatswain's mate second class, of New York City. Coast Guardsmen call the creature a Gooney Bird. Lambrinos, at his gun station, might well be modeling the latest millinery creations for the warswept Pacific. The Coast Guardsmen, who lives at 348 W. 48th Street in New York City, has a brother, Peter, who has served three and a half years in the Coast Guard.


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Keywords: 17-a2-187, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg