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...Loading Time. No one ate very much lunch (a cold salad of macaroni and ham). At 2:45 p.m. the boat teams prepared to go over the side. I joined Captain Jaskilka's people. We stood there waiting for our wave to load into the landing craft. Ours was the third. The first wave was to hit the 9½ ft. sea wall at Inchon at 5:30 p.m. The second wave would be three minutes later. The third wave was to land at 5:40. These first three waves on Red Beach, a tiny plot of ground...
...Consolidated Vultee B-36, a cigar-shaped aerial monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off the ground (a small submarine costs $6,000,000). The tanks in its 230-ft. wing can swallow 2½ tank-car loads of gasoline, enough to feed its six pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force insists, fairly well above the range of effective interception. Four new jet engines, hanging beneath the wingtips, were designed to give...
...their military girdles, LeMay found himself running the Berlin airlift as chief of U.S. air forces in Europe. One day a C-54 pilot at Frankfurt felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, looked up into the Old Man's three stars. "Son, I'll take this load," said LeMay. "Go and tell your dispatcher-and if he lets the other end know I'm coming he'll get hell from me." LeMay flew into Berlin, unloaded, then took his place in the take-off waiting line for 40 minutes...
...asked Charles Scribner, Medical Corpsman of Rochester, Mich, who had just come off the ridge with a load of wounded, what it was like over there on the unnamed real estate...
...also established a new pattern of industrial mobilization. It has divided the U.S. into five areas, each designed to develop its own independent tank production system in case of all-out mobilization. Such decentralization, the department believes, will not only have strategic advantages, but will distribute the economic load of mobilization evenly throughout the country, and help prevent large-scale migration of skilled labor to a few industrial centers...