Word: aircraft
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Tiny Packages. TIME has learned that U.S. Government investigators are finding it extremely difficult to determine the cause of that crash. Looting South Vietnamese soldiers who were first on the scene picked through the wreckage, stripping the dead-and injured-of anything of conceivable value. Along with aircraft instruments and fuselage parts that are needed for the investigation, the scavengers ripped out and stole tiny packages of U.S. one-dollar bills that had been sewed into the underclothes of some of the orphans...
...brave Cambodians" in January, and that "as of this evening, it may be too late." Indeed it was. Two days later, U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean closed the U.S. embassy in Phnom-Penh, and he and his small remaining staff were evacuated by U.S. Marine helicopters from the aircraft carriers Okinawa and Hancock. It was the somber, classic ritual that marks the end of lost cities and lost wars...
...assembling a considerable evacuation armada in the South China Sea off Viet Nam. In various ports along the Vietnamese coast, there are nine amphibious vessels, which were called in earlier to evacuate Vietnamese refugees to the south. Four aircraft carriers are in the area: the Hancock, the Coral Sea and the Midway are in the South China Sea; the Enterprise is at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Last week 2,200 Marines were deployed to the four carriers and their escort ships...
...Communists had a poorly armed though well-trained and disciplined army of 1 million, recruited largely from the peasantry. The Nationalists, with 3 million combat troops and ready access to U.S. ships and aircraft, easily won the postwar race to reoccupy the one-third of China that had been under Japanese control. Yet, three years after the start of the civil war, Chiang was a refugee on Taiwan -vowing to recover the mainland with the help of 2 million Nationalist followers who had joined him on the island...
Died. Lloyd Stearman, 76, pioneering U.S. aircraft designer; of cancer; in Northridge, Calif. A Navy pilot during World War I, Stearman teamed up with two other air-struck Kansans, Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna, to build a generation of simple biplanes that became the Model Ts of the barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued...