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...River Glen is buried with 16 to 30 inches of snow. Skiing good. The present weather forecast is for snow flurries throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont with continued cold. By the weekend, our airfield prognosticator reveals, there should be more snow, but didn't say how much. Concord recorded a low of 12 degrees yesterday, and the rest of the state was almost that cold. General forecast for the rest of December: continued cold and more snow...
...ring's favorite airfield, Furstenfeldbruck (Fursty, to G.I.s), had stained glass windows in the officers' club, special leather chairs, 40 in. broad in the seat, for the Reichsmarschall's personal use. Its enlisted men were housed in the Kilometer Building, a single building 3,280-ft.-long, which is now the most comfortable barracks in the U.S. Air Force...
...U.S.A.F.'s demand for 9,000 ft. and the R.A.F.'s insistence that 6,000 ft. is plenty); standardized lighting, storage and fueling facilities. Beyond these bare essentials, each air force builds its own barracks, canteens and bowling alleys-at its own expense. To get a standard airfield ready for occupation by Americans, the U.S. shells out an extra $12 to $18 million...
...Forces sent him to India, where he flew a flock of missions out of a funny little strip at Ondal. He could give a Zero half a turn and still nail it in his sights. And one day he buzzed the airfield at Rangoon just to drop some comic books...
...Alps last week into the old town of Bern, fluttering with flags for the occasion, poured some 5,500 Hornussers with their wives, children and 21 freight-car loads of playing equipment. For the Hornuss Federation's "World Series," the Swiss army cleared an auxiliary airfield in the suburbs, then parceled it into 67 playing fields, each about 350 yards long and 50 yards wide. Part of the airfield became an amusement park full of merry-go-rounds, beer and milk bars, and brassy rural bands...