Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans. The cabinet had decided to: < ¶Turn down the U.N. appeal for ground troops. ("The dispatch at this stage of ex isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel, were to fly to McChord field, near Tacoma, Wash., this week to operate be tween there and Tokyo...
Right after the Air Force alerted U.S. passenger and cargo airlines for a possible airlift to Korea (TIME, July 17), it began calling for planes. Last week the Air Force announced that the airlines* had agreed to supply 63 transports, most of them DC-45, for the transpacific flights. It had already chartered 33 of the planes; the rest would soon be in hand...
...running the Far East Air Force in smooth cooperation with the Army. Top-ranking air officer in the China-Burma-India Theater during the last war, West Pointer "Strat" directed the 1944 Tenth Air Force offensive against the Japanese in Burma. At the same time he organized an airlift which supplied Allied ground troops in Burma with an average of 2,000 tons of food and equipment a day even during the monsoon season.. Calm and considerate, West Pointer Stratemeyer has something of the air of a jolly college professor, manages to get the best out of his juniors...
...Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...