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...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
...Midway. The turning point of the war, according to Toland, came at 7:24 a.m., April 18, 1942, when Jimmy Doolittle took off from the carrier deck of the U.S.S. Hornet at the head of 16 B-25s. Though the raid on Tokyo did little actual damage, Toland reports that Japanese officials were astonished to find that their capital was so vulnerable, concluded that the nation was likely to panic under sustained air attack. The result was the Japanese decision to invade Midway and the Aleutians, the likeliest U.S. bomber bases. Dangerously overextended, they blundered into the Battle...
...Navy hero of the Pacific sea war, Admiral Halsey hit the Japanese as unpredictably and as hard. Two months after Pearl Harbor, he took the offensive in his flagship Enterprise, raided the Marshall Islands; two months after that, he launched Jimmy Doolittle's Army B-25s from Hornet against Tokyo. "We get away with it because we violate the traditional rules," he grinned, and the Navy loved him for his craggy jaw and bushy eyebrow's, his baseball cap, his salty determination to ride Emperor Hirohito's white horse through Tokyo...
South from Taejon last week fled a group of disreputable-looking Koreans in castoff clothes, armed with pocket pistols and .25s in shoulder holsters. They were cabinet members of the Republic of Korea on their way to join President Syngman Rhee in his hideout "White House" somewhere in Korea's far south. Taejon, South Korea's emergency capital since the fall of Seoul on June 28, was no longer a safe location for the cabinet, military men had decided...
...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...