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...Moscow on Aviation Day, all roads lead to Tushino. Even before dawn, thousands of streetcars and buses stream towards the huge airfield twelve miles from the city's heart. By 11 a.m. one day last month, 500,000 people blotted out the flag-decked stands, overflowed on to nearby railroad embankments. In the reviewing stand, flanked by his Politburo, stood Joseph Stalin himself. The Soviet national anthem blared out over the plain. "Dear Comrades, Muscovites," crackled the loudspeakers, "the festival of Stalin's aviation has started...
Since Vienna is 100 miles inside Russian occupied Austria, a bus ride from the outlying airfield to the city goes through Soviet territory. The bus ride along the only road open to the Western powers seems like a zoo on wheels. People on the road stare in with worried faces, and the children run beside the bus for a better glimpse...
Several years ago, during World War II, the Japanese district commander at Butterworth, near Singapore, ordered the destruction of a local Hindu temple to make way for an airfield. Local laborers refused to tear down the shrine; the deity who dwelt within, they said, did not want to move. The Japanese gave up. Last week the tactful British, who also want to build an airfield at Butterworth, tried their luck in their own way. They approached the Hindu god through proper diplomatic channels-a local poojari, or medium. After spreading the temple liberally with sweet-smelling blossoms, coconuts, saffron...
...gave him the 12th Fighter Command in Africa in 1943. On D-plus-one, he landed on a shell-swept Normandy beach as a major general heading the 9th Fighter Command in Hoyt Vandenberg's Ninth Air Force. Harsh and driving, he was all over the front, browbeating airfield engineers, chewing out squadron commanders for not doing more, flying battle missions between times...
...permanent headquarters for the Strategic Air Command's 5th Air Division in Morocco. From Britain, an unrevealed number of B50 medium bombers flew to the new bases (see map) described as "under development." ¶The U.S. reached agreement with Saudi Arabia to use its huge U.S.-built Dhahran Airfield for the next five years. Hitherto, the U.S. has had only year-to-year agreements. The field can handle the Air Force's largest strategic bombers, commands the whole Middle East area. ¶ In Washington, the House Armed Services Committee voted more than a billion dollars...