Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow, multi-purpose military transport plane is obsolete. So declared Lieut. General Joseph Smith, U.S.A.F., boss of the Military Air Transport Service, at a meeting of aeronautical engineers in Seattle. Two different aircraft are needed: 1) a 550-m.p.h. jet transport (range, 3,500 miles; payload, 15 tons), to lift key personnel and vital supplies; 2) a slower, turboprop cargo plane with a 25-ton payload and a range of 3,500 miles. Boeing's experimental 707 jetliner (TIME, March 8) roughly satisfies the first requirement; a suitable U.S. turboprop transport has yet to be put into mass production...
...inspired the famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...
Junior spent the rest of the European war in Bermuda. The capture was a top secret that the German admiralty never fathomed. The captured codebooks, logs and general orders were described by Naval intelligence officers as one of the greatest windfalls of the war. For his heroism, Lieut. David (now dead) got the Medal of Honor...
Whaleboats & Logs. The diesels of the U-505 were still running, and the boat was moving in a tight, righthand circle when Lieut, (j.g.) Albert David and eight crewmen from the destroyer Pillsbury jumped aboard, minutes after the last live German had left (the body of one Nazi, the only fatality in the whole operation, was found aboard the U-boat). Racing below, the boarders shut the seacocks, stopped the engines and searched for booby traps. That evening the U-5O5 -rechristened Can Do, Jr.-rode at the end of a towline behind the Guadalcanal...
...West Pointer (class of '15), "Doodle" Harmon comes from a distinguished family of soldiers. His father was the commandant of cadets at what is now the Pennsylvania Military College, and one of his brothers was Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, who, as wartime commander of the Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1945. In World War I, young Doodle served as an aviator in France; in World War II, he commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific. Later he served as senior Air Force member on the U.N.'s Military and Naval...