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...telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under him, and he's all right." Swallowing hard, Airman Bell found the home telephone number of Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns. When a housekeeper answered, Bell asked to speak to the commanding officer of U.S. forces in Japan...
...coming on duty for a routine day's work, found the body on the chamber floor. His suicide note asked them not to condemn him for using the chamber to kill himself; if he told his motive, the Air Force wasn't telling. Moore became the fourth airman in 17 years, recall air medical officers at other bases, to seek death deliberately at a simulated height, perhaps the first man in history killed above 63,000 ft. by boiling blood...
Despite the tragedy. Cushing was obsessed with opening a ski area, went into partnership with Airman Poulsen to develop Squaw in June 1948. Poulsen supplied the land-640 acres-and Cushing the money-$400,000. Alec and Justine invested $145,000 of their own, got $50,000 from Laurance Rockefeller, the rest from other friends...
Demon & Voodoo. Founded in 1939 by Engineer-Airman McDonnell with the help of the Rockefellers, the company taxied around until after World War II doing mostly subcontract and experimental work. Finally it took off with the first production order for a plane of its own design, the FH1 Phantom, the Navy's first carrier-based jet fighter. Other orders (800 planes) followed for its second plane, the F2H Banshee. What almost proved McDonnell's undoing was No. 3, an ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon. It proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine...
...military in Algeria will be taken over by General Maurice Challe, 53, a fiery patriot after De Gaulle's own heart. After the French collapse in World War II, Airman Challe distinguished himself in the resistance by personally leading and executing "most delicate and dangerous" missions. He is credited with having obtained for the Eisenhower headquarters before D-day the order of battle of the German Luftwaffe, the placement of flak installations and of the main dispositions of the German army. Characterized as a man "who always happily chooses the most perilous posts," General Challe is a dedicated Gaullist...