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...bright, moonlit night when antiaircraft guns around Yontan airstrip in west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
...cost of that furious two-hour battle to the Laffey was 31 men killed or missing, 60 wounded. The Japs lost their six suicide planes and eight more shot down. In brisk, factual fashion, Lieut. Frank Manson, communications officer, told how it went, that morning of April...
...originator of Pepsi-Cola's public welfare policy is brisk, 49-year-old President Walter Staunton Mack Jr. Mr. Mack has long believed that industry owes and should pay more to the community than mere jobs. Says he: "This project is the newest expression of [that] basic philosophy...
...full staff. The official period of mourning for Franklin Roosevelt was over, and Harry S. Truman had ended his first month as President. He also had moved across the street from Blair House, and the White House began to reflect the easy informality of the brisk Mid-westerner's family life...
...airborne outfit, the Army decided to take a hot infantry division and convert it. The choice fell on the 82nd-once commanded by Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, then by his friend and deputy, Matt Ridgway. As Ridgway recalls it, his introduction to the airborne merry-go-round was brisk and informal. The War Department simply called him up and said: "Would you like to become airborne?" Said Ridgway, no hater of change or challenge...