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Conference at Campobello. Johnson finally called it a day after a speech in Lewiston, Me., then boarded the Northampton, a seaborne command post crammed with communications gear, in Portland for an overnight cruise. From the ship's deck, he was to helicopter to meet Pearson at Campobello, F.D.R.'s summer retreat. Johnson and Pearson planned to confer privately for an hour, touching on such topics as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Viet Nam, where Canada is one of three nations on the International Control Commission, then to lay the cornerstone for a reception center in front...
...things turned out, they need not have worried. By that late date, the only planes the shattered Japanese air force was able to supply the pilots were obsolete, Type 97 fixed-landing-gear crates in bad repair. Three of the pilots did eventually get off on Kamikaze missions. But one by one, the other nine on the flight from Ozuki were forced to ditch or crash-land. Except for one pilot who died in a crash, they were still waiting for replacement aircraft when the war ended three months later...
Stilwell's friends and family held out hope. For one thing, the missing plane was equipped with a four-man life raft, flares, and other emergency gear. Besides, Stilwell had always had his father's famed knack for survival. As leathery and almost as prickly as Vinegar Joe, he came to be known among his troops as "Cider Joe." A 1933 West Point graduate, Joe Stilwell won his combat spurs as a colonel in Burma campaign headquarters and as commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in Korea. From 1962 to 1964, he commanded the U.S. Support Group...
...afar by their luxuriant beards and deep suntans, and the approach of their elderly craft can be detected by the clatter of chipping hammers pecking away at rusty decks. The ships themselves have high, unsheered bows and an ungainly 12-knot waddle, while the most advanced piece of electronic gear aboard any of them is a popcorn machine. Yet Inshore Fire Support Division 93, as McCoy's Navy is known officially, is one of the most valuable units in the South China Sea. It serves as the seagoing artillery of the South Vietnamese army...
...wood and linen seaplane. In the years thereafter, Boeing made a land-based biplane that was the U.S.'s first efficient airmail carrier; it helped him to win the profitable San Francisco-Chicago route. Boeing's Monomail 200 in 1930 was the first plane with retractable landing gear; his 1933 ten-passenger Boeing 247 was the U.S.'s first twin-engined commercial transport plane, and the Boeing Stratoliner in 1938 was the first transport with a pressurized cabin...