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During the Inchon campaign, Almond toured his front lines indefatigably. As early as 4 a.m., he would leave his 2½-ton trailer CP (equipped with refrigerator and alfresco shower) to drive his own jeep to some jumping-off point. He got to know by name every X Corps battalion commander, talked to several score men in the ranks daily. One G.I. gave him this passing mark: "The soldiers here may not like him, but they sure as hell admire him. That's one general who sticks his neck out just like we have...
...roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing first-into an open field, a mile short of the runway...
...Away. In the first, long moment of silence, wisps of smoke began to curl out of the mangled metal. Then, as ambulances and fire trucks roared down from their ready stations, one of the crew jumped out of the wreckage and circled dazedly until a sergeant ran from the trailer camp to lead him away. Miraculously seven others, including Captain Steffes and his copilot, managed to drag themselves free. "Let's get out of here," one of them mumbled. "There are bombs on there...
...dawn, the acting base commander could add up his night's grim work. Of the plane's crew of 20, twelve were dead or missing, including General Travis. Seven other blasted bodies were believed to be those of the base fire men. Sixty men & women of the trailer camp had been treated for injuries. Had there been no warning before the bomb explosions, the fatalities would have been catastrophic, for the mangled corner of the Fairfield-Suisun air base looked exactly as though it had been the B-29's target for the night...
...their brethren busy cooking and serving meals in batches of 20,000, giving first aid to the heat-prostrated, returning lost children, painting signs, running a post office and arranging transportation. At night hundreds of them trekked back across the Hudson River to a 90-acre tent and trailer camp at New Market, N.J., where another 9,000 had listened in over loudspeakers. And in between times, they managed to give New Yorkers the impression that there was a Witness on nearly every street corner, cheerfully hawking his sect's two periodicals, The Watchtower and Awake...