Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...congressional appointment. So at Ohio State* he began an alternate route to flying. He busied himself in R.O.T.C., graduated (in 1928) to a National Guard summer camp with a reserve commission. In the fall he began training as a flying cadet at California's March Field...
Flyaway Day. When SAC moved from a field outside Washington to Offutt, next-door Omaha was tingling with anticipation of the big armadas to come. "What will this mean to Omaha?" asked a reporter as LeMay arrived on the scene. "It doesn't mean a damn thing to Omaha, and it doesn't mean a damn thing to me," he growled...
...morning of Korea, LeMay didn't wait for the Pentagon to stir. He got. on the wire with the commanders of his air forces: the Second, Eighth and Fifteenth. He ordered in Major General Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until...
...frightened dog skulked nearby. "I know those bastards are Reds, but I still don't like to see dogs eat dead people," a bearded sergeant said with a shudder as he bounced a rock off the dog's ribs and sent him yowling into the paddy field...
...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...