Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tearful day this week, Wilkes-Barre waved goodbye to a troop train carrying the men of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion, National Guard. They were Wilkes-Barre's own-all men from the anthracite districts of Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley. The train headed west for Camp Atterbury, Ind. with 700 men and officers...
...rush town of Nome, Alaska had echoed to the roar of aircraft and bulldozers, the bustle of 10,000 U.S. troops. But last week, though gold dredges still clanked on its outskirts, the dusty, ramshackle little subarctic settlement looked almost lifeless again. At the Air Force's Marks Field, 500 miles beyond the main U.S. defense lines, trucks and crates stood ready for the barges which would carry them south to Anchorage. As the jet plane flies, Siberian airfields were only half an hour away; by the time next month's snows came the Air Force would...
Blankets & C-Rations. At Anchorage, where thousands of service wives & children are based, the evacuation drill was even more realistic. Buses took women with small babies to Elmendorf Field where Army clerks speedily checked them through to planes. A special train stood by to take other priority passengers to the Army port at Whittier, 60 miles to the southeast. Meanwhile, the bulk of Anchorage's dependents jumped into automobiles and drove a full 50 miles down the road which connects with the Alaska Highway...
Slit Trenches & Antiaircraft. As soon as the evacuation rehearsal was finished, platoons of U.S. "aggressor" troops began making simulated attacks on the runways at Fairbanks. Every mechanic, clerk and mess sergeant was called for a three-day defense of the field. The commissary was closed tight and the families who had only pretended to evacuate actually began to run low on food. Last week similar mock battles were being fought at other bases...
Part of the Britons' cool thoroughness was explained by their months of field training at Hong Kong, part by their commander, big, affable Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad, who moved constantly through his positions on the Naktong with the cool aplomb of a duke at a garden party. During the first day's action, one British company was cut off. No one got excited. Coad calmly ordered the company supplied by tanks and an airdrop, and a U.S. helicopter went into the cut-off company and brought out its first wounded. The British thought this was a particularly admirable...