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  • n  a commissioned officer (especially one in the Royal Air Force) equivalent in rank to a colonel in the army
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  • Love and Death
    Time is up for group captain Peter Carter (David Niven), flying a flak-pierced, burning Lancaster during the last days of WWII, and when he makes a desperate jump over the Channel—after radioing a final farewell to a lovely WAC (Kim Hunter) in the control tower—he sets into motion the kind of SNAFU which the soldiers in that war were all too familiar with.
    Jan. 29, 2014 - North Bay Bohemian

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