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...sixth anniversary of the liberation of Paris last week, the air over the French capital was filled with the whoosh of jet fighters. At an airfield, loudspeakers barked out flight orders in a mixture of English and French: "Castor Bleu, scramble . . . Cobra Jaune, en readiness dans quatre minutes" For three days, 450 planes of the Dutch, Belgian, British and French air forces, supplemented by U.S. B-29s, carried out Western Union's first air maneuvers. Exulted a French colonel: "Today there is actually a European air force . . . Maybe we're just a little ahead of the politicians...
...millions of dead and dying fish. Up in the mountains the river had been dammed by landslides. Indian air force pilots in Liberator bombers were sent to blast the river free, but before they could go to work, the water burst free and innundated vast stretches of land. Ledo airfield, built as a U.S. Air Force base during World War II, was destroyed...
...fought; you had your cake and ate it. But at the same time a limited war was a strained thing, full of contradictions and paradoxes: Army divisions sailed under security orders with flashbulbs blinking and bands playing, and in Japan F-80 pilots ate breakfast were driven to the airfield by their wives, kissed these wives goodbye, and in an hour were dodging gunfire from the Korean valleys. And to the men in those valleys there was considerable question whether it was a limited...
...they sent a force inland to attack the enemy in his rear, while other South Koreans and a small armored U.S. force held him by the nose (as the late George Patton used to say) with a frontal attack. The U.S. Air Force moved its planes back to Pohang airfield. The Communists were pushed back toward Yongdok. Jubilant South Korean commanders called it a rout...
...carrying on bravely. Egypt's King Farouk, for one, moved serenely northward through France's peaceful summer landscape. Traveling incognito as Fuad Pasha Masri (Fuad-the-Egyptian) in a glittering train of seven Cadillacs with motorcycle outriders, while his private plane hopped along beside him from one airfield to the next, he startled hotel managers by arriving unannounced in the middle of the night and demanding 22 rooms for himself and staff. (At Lyons he complained that the beds were too small.) His destination: the Hotel du Golf at Deauville, the fashionable summer resort in Normandy, where business...