“Pilot Failure” by Alice Lent Covert, article in “The Saturday Evening Post,” May 16, 1959.

            “With explosion threatening his crippled tanker at any second, the skipper panicked.  Donelly hit him a swift brutal blow.

“Major Mac Donnelly, USAF, was a soft-spoken Irishman with shrewd blue eyes and a quiet humor.  Lt. Peter Alsop, Jr. was the aircraft commander of the big KC-97 tanker on which the major was a mere co-pilot, a situation not uncommon in SAC tanker squadrons, where promotions were often slow.  The fact that Donnelly outranked young Alsop by two grades and twelve years was of no importance.  

“Lt. Peter Alsop, Jr. was a tense young hothead with a low boiling point.  At 23 he was the brightest star in the wing’s firmament.  The son of Ol’ Thunder, Gen. Peter Alsop, Senior, the most feared and cordially disliked general in the military, Junior was following faithfully in his old man’s footsteps . . .”

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