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...North Korea. The tail gunner and fire-control man of a B-29 over Wonsan saw a disk-shaped object that seemed to fly with a revolving motion. It was orange in color, and around its rim were small, bluish flames. For five minutes it flew along with the bomber at 200 m.p.h. Then it disappeared...
...Douglas' A3D (unnamed), a swift twin-jet attack bomber which can operate from carriers, drop anything from torpedoes to tactical A-bombs...
...Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen, 42, who led a B-17 group in North Africa and Europe in World War II. The 126th became a light bomber wing only four months before it was yanked back into federal service last March, got a refresher course of sorts in the States and was transferred to France last October. Half its 1,800 men were taken away to fill vacancies in Korea-bound units or for other reasons, and were...
...mobilization officials minimized the change, many an aircraftmaker thought it was a drastic about-face. They said that the basic concept of the mobilization program, the "multiple source of supply," had been jettisoned. Under that theory, big-production would not be concentrated in just one factory making a medium bomber; three factories would be tooled and output divided among them. Thus, all would be available for immediate mass production for total...
...different than the next fellow." Just to show that it was impartial-and not out to sabotage the Red Sox pennant chances-the Marine Corps also called up the New York Yankees' $17,000-a-year Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, a captain and wartime dive-bomber pilot (57 missions...