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...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...
...General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China...
...freezing December night in 1928, a weird-looking little monoplane called "the Doodlebug" took off from a Milwaukee airfield and headed hopefully in the general direction of New York City. Designer-Pilot James S. McDonnell Jr., then 29, hoped to make aviation history by a daring night flight. Ha also hoped to prove that his plane was the safest in the air, thus get enough orders to start manufacturing the air "flivver." But he had scarcely cleared Milwaukee before the engine began flying apart. By a well-executed dead-stick landing in a farmer's field Pilot McDonnell saved...
...Soviet car pool, and got a jeep. Having passed through the Iron Curtain, they drove on & on, mile after mile into Soviet Germany. Brushing past guards, explaining that his companion was an important representative of a satellite nation, the Russian took the Congressman to a newly built airfield, where he proudly pointed out a line of swept-wing jet planes of late design. Then he drove on to an armored infantry compound where he waved a hand "at about 20 new, turretless, heavily gunned Russian tanks which appeared to stand no more than three feet off the ground. Chatham, entering...
...just like old times," said Douglas MacArthur to the assembled big wheels at Kimpo airfield. The Supreme Commander's silvery new Constellation SCAP had just flown him in from Tokyo for another historic ceremony of liberation...