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...engineer soldier at his best," said Douglas MacArthur in 1945 when he pinned a Distinguished Service Cross on Major General Leif John Sverdrup, his acting Chief Engineer for the Pacific Theater. The D.S.C. was lean Jack Sverdrup's reward for leading the reconnaissance and capture of Lingayen airfield on Luzon. But he had long since won greater fame for his methodically frenzied hacking of airstrips, almost overnight, out of South Pacific jungles. At war's end Jack Sverdrup went back to his St. Louis engineering firm of Sverdrup & Parcel...
...skies over Formosa one day this week roared a U.S. C-54. It landed smoothly at Taipei's airfield. From the Bataan stepped General Douglas MacArthur. He was welcomed by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose determined face had over the years become almost as familiar to history as Douglas MacArthur's lofty scowl. MacArthur, accompanied by Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, had come to discuss the defenses of Formosa, which the U.S. is committed to guard against Red attack. Said MacArthur, shaking Chiang's hand: "How do you do, Generalissimo, it was nice...
...subjects were on hand to greet him. The airfield and the roads near by were guarded by 10,000 soldiers, black-helmeted gendarmes armed with carbines, and squads of special police in riot cars. Motorcycle squads preceded Leopold's car while 17 truckloads of police and four armored cars followed him. The procession went through deserted streets, avoiding Brussels' center. On the walls there were freshly painted signs, "Abdicate!" and "Down With Leopold III," but the King gave no indication that he saw them...
...Communist shelling of the U.S. airfield at Taejon (see above) was forcing increasing reliance on bases in Japan, but the U.S. was also beginning to build emergency airstrips in South Korea. One such airstrip, already in operation last week, consisted of a tiny cluster of rundown concrete buildings, hastily made over into an operations office and control tower, two rickety hangars and a long, grassy runway...
After a brief rest leave in Tokyo, Correspondent Tom Lambert of the Associated Press climbed into clean combat fatigues last week to go back to the front. Just as Lambert was boarding a bus for the airfield, he was handed an unexpected, unwelcome and undeserved order from Colonel Marion P. Echols, press chief for General MacArthur. For filing dispatches giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," able, conscientious Newsman Lambert was forbidden to return to Korea. So was United Press Correspondent Peter Kalischer, for the same harsh reason...