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Almost all of the occupation forces' top brass were at the dockside in Yokohama one day last week as Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger walked slowly up the gangplank of an Army transport. There were few dry eyes among the generals and colonels. Many an Eighth Army G.I. was in the dumps. Said one hard-faced sergeant: "There goes the best goddam man the Army ever raised." At 62, Bob Eichelberger was going into retirement...
...miles at more than 300 m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then to Fort Worth, north to Dayton and back to Fort Worth before it finally landed, more than 19 hours after its takeoff. It looked as if the transport version of the B-36, the XC-99, would have no trouble fulfilling Convair's promise to carry 400 passengers for 8,100 miles nonstop...
...agreed that the Allied airlift to Berlin could be stepped up to 4,500 tons a day by next fall. A new airport would be constructed in Berlin to handle additional C-54s. The planes could be supplied without serious strain on either the Air Force or its military transport service...
Died. General Joseph Edouard Dou-menc, 67, who organized the French army's transport system in World War I, headed the ill-fated French military mission to Moscow just before the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, took charge of the demobilization of 5,000,000 troops when France fell; in a mountain-climbing accident; near Briangon, France...
...knocked over a suburban bar (for about $30) and staged at least two other holdups. Amid confident press speculation that they had probably fled to the country until the heat was off, the two, posing as detectives, then called at the fashionable Neuilly apartment of Joseph de Bisschop, a transport company executive, and walked out with 100,000 francs (about $300) in cash and some $1,400 worth of jewelry...