Word: airfield
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...equipment necessary for attempts this week is ready at the airfield for the first opportunity afforded by the weather, according to Edward E. Clark, chief engineer of the New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity...
...colonel snapped out brusque instructions to his listeners. He ordered all able-bodied men to report to Dorval airfield; house owners were warned to take down crucifixes and religious images in their homes. Later bulletins flashed the news that the Red flag was flying in Ottawa; New York was under attack...
...that the J.C.S. recognized it as a job primarily for air power-Navy air as well as Air Force. The Soviet Union now has some 350 bombers modeled on the 6-29, which could reach almost any point in the U.S., drop their bombs, land on the nearest airfield and surrender. Neither the U.S. radar net nor the U.S.'s interceptor forces were adequate to stop them...
...landed at Barajas Airport, it was emblazoned with the red, yellow and purple flag of the late Spanish Republic. The official reception party representing Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Spain (a gold and red flag) stared in stunned silence as Colonel McCormick stepped confidently on to the airfield, beaming to right & left. The airfield commander finally whispered in the ear of Colonel McCormick's pilot, who explained that the flag had been painted on the B-17 in California, along with a Portuguese flag, and that nobody had noticed anything amiss. When told about the mistake, the Colonel ordered...
...sendoff worthy of its first citizen to enlist in World War II. When Willie's troop train stopped in Punxsutawney one month later, the town gave him a welcome fit for a man on his way to war. But when the Army bogged him down at a nearby airfield while all his buddies went overseas, the neighbors began cutting him, his father wanted him out of sight, and even the dogs barked at him when he slunk through the streets...