Happy Birthday, USAF

ACROSS
1. Commercials
4. Federal org. concerned with drugs
7. ___ vs. Wade
10. Category
12. Cpl. Vernon L. __; first enlisted pilot in 1912
14. Gen. ___ Spaatz; first Chief of Staff of the USAF
15. Recount
16. French cubist artist Fernand
17. Pilots with 5+ kills
18. Bro’s sib
19. Donkey
20. Gen., Maj., CMSgt, SSgt, A1C, etc.
22. Plant stem
24. Kunsan AB host country currency
25. Dowel
27. Gen. Henry H. ____; only five star general in USAF history
31. Frederick I. ___; charter member of the Order of Daedalians
35. ___ on; encourages
37. Jacob’s first wife
39. Film ____
40. 2000 movie ___ of Honor
41. SE Florida county home to Homestead JARB
42. Repeated 3X for title film about Pearl Harbor attack
43. Sally ____; first U.S. woman in space
44. Estimate
45. Banderole
47. Galloped
49. Stat for 48 DOWN
50. Dallas team
54. Uniform material, once
57. Tom Brady stat
59. Former command developed by Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, in brief
60. Ache
61. Ralph ___; American lawyer, consumer protectionism pioneer
63. Smooth out
65. For Your Eyes ____
66. Simultaneous release of a rack of bombs from an aircraft
67. Current MAJCOM for training
68. Snakelike fish
69. Vote in favor
70. Comm. person in the field

DOWN
1. MCI competitor
2. William E. ___; WWII pilot & Bataan death march escapee
3. Break in two
4. Fees
5. Units of energy; equal to work of a force of one dyne/cm
6. Period
7. Medieval torture tool
8. Mining goals
9. Golfer Ernie
11. Designer Schiaparelli
12. Ester McGowin ___; first woman to enlist in Air Force
13. Mistakes
14. Able
21. Cape ___; northeast Massachusetts peninsula
23. Dr.’s asst
24. Lt. Boyd ____; first American USAAF ace of WWII
26. NASA space program
28. Brig. Gen. Robin ___; rated a triple air ace (WWII/Vietnam)
29. Lawns
30. Art movement
31. Uzal G. ___; 2AF commander in WWII, led Operation Tidal Wave
32. Blunder
33. Italian currency, once
34. Middle East country
36. H.S. diploma equivalent
38. Word of surprise
43. Augustine Warner ___; father of modern USAF logistics
44. Picnic pest
46. Bother
48. Houston player
51. Continent home to Osan AB
52. Scarcer
53. Cpl. Frank ___; first enlisted man to die in aircraft accident
54. Citizen ___
55. Ployer P. ___; test pilot killed in original B-17 crash
56. ___ Given Sunday
57. Sit ___ by; do nothing
58. Actress Campbell
60. Writer Edgar Allen
62. Auto club
64. Considered “backbone” of USAF