Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This new TIME department has already brought you special roundups on Korea, Antitank Weapons, Air Power, Atomic ABCs, Indo-China, Lieut. General LeMay and his Strategic Air Command...
...forces last week also honored a white flag'borne by a Communist lieutenant colonel, the first North Korean officer of field grade to surrender since the fighting began. The Communist officer walked into a South Korean command post, explained that he was: 1) annoyed at not having been promoted to the rank of full colonel; 2) sore because his superiors had told him he was not a good artilleryman; 3) convinced that the North Koreans were in a pretty bad way anyhow...
After the war, Lou Sebille spent some time as a commercial airline pilot, finally decided to return to the Air Force as a career officer. He was again made a major and sent to a base in southern Japan. There, Lou Sebille rose to command of a Mustang squadron, used to like to lounge around his squadron's Quonset hut and talk about fighting and dying. "If you have to die," he used to say, "then take some of the enemy with...
...Dayton, the U.S. Air Forces Air Materiel Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...
Doing its bit to make servicemen in Korea security-conscious, the armed forces radio in Japan broadcast the first results of a new slogan contest. One of the shortest slogans, contributed by Major General Walter Weible of the Logistical Command: "Shut up." Another from Sergeant First Class Robert Newcomer: "The two best relatives what am-Anti-Rumor and Uncle...