Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pounding his gavel, the President then declared the 21st and last session of the League of Nations closed. As the delegates hurried off, a lonely peacock-sole survivor of the League's once proud flock-slunk off to hide under a laurel bush...
Next day General LeMay moved out of the double Quonset hut which had been his headquarters since January-first, as commanding general, 21st Bomber Command, lately as commanding general, Twentieth Air Force. When he moved 1,500 ft. beyond the road to a cramped, three-man office he took with him a Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait...
...island which had been only a Pan American Clipper stop before the war, five great airfields were clawed out of the hills and jungles. In & out of them flew mail, passengers, plasma, wounded. From the great asphalt acres roared the Super-forts of the 21st Bomber Command. Where Standard Oil had once maintained a few oil tanks, there were now enough facilities to hold four days' output of all the oil wells in Oklahoma...
...Airmen. Soon the Pacific command will be a full-fledged trinity. Ever since November 1944 the 21st Bomber Command, now bossed by tough, cigar-smoking Major General Curtis LeMay, has been an independent unit in the Pacific. It is a part of the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by General "Hap" Arnold and responsible only...
...21st Bomber Command had shifted to smaller cities because it had run out of primary targets. In Washington last week,* the command's good-looking, serious, young (38) chief, Major General Curtis E. LeMay, explained: "We have destroyed the five largest cities in Japan and any one of these would be a major disaster. We have done this with less than half the strength we will have in the Pacific. We have the capacity to devastate Japan and we will do so if she does not surrender. Missions of 1,000 planes will come before long...