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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western Europeans last week got a reassuring glimpse of America, embodied by three of its topflight fighting men. For ten days, homely, lean-flanked Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley, boyish-looking Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (he is 50), and earnest, bespectacled Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, toured the Continent in Harry Truman's blue and silver plane, Independence, reviewed troops, placed wreaths, and did some top-secret chatting with leaders of the Atlantic pact nations. The visitors' chief task was to show Western Europe that they took an interest...
...chiefs of staff first flew to Frankfurt, where they conferred with representatives of Luxembourg (military strength: two battalions) and Italy. Then they went to London, where brief staff talks with British, Norwegian and Danish military leaders were sandwiched between a reception at Buckingham Palace and an air review by 24 U.S. Superfortresses...
...France, while French Communists shouted "Bradley Go Back to New York!", Bradley & friends drove to Fontainebleau to meet the Western Union commanders:Field Marshal Montgomery, General De Lattre de Tassigny, Air Chief Marshal Robb and Vice Admiral Jaujard. To counteract reports that he does not get on with his French colleague, Monty seized De Lattre by the arm, led him to the waiting guard of honor and pushed him ahead, right next to Bradley...
After the Russians lifted the blockade last May, Operation Vittles continued to fly about 8,000 tons of food and fuel a day into the city. Last week daily shipments were reduced to 4,000 tons. After October, when shipments will cease, only two U.S. Air Force transport groups will be left in Germany. By then the city's food & fuel stockpile should be an impressive 1,000,000 tons. But that did not change the fact that last week 200,000 of West Berlin's 2,500,000 people were out of jobs, or that the list...
During 14 years of military duty in northeastern Peru, Juan Heysen again & again heard the legends of El Dorado and Angayza. Finally, he decided that he had to see the mountain for himself. The government agreed to help-with supplies and Air Ministry aerial photographs. In June the expedition was ready...