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...bomber bases in North Africa, in Alaska, Greenland and Britain, at training bases in Arizona-and in the Pentagon itself. The attitude was best symbolized by a blue-clad West Pointer who wears the four stars of the Chief of Staff of the U.S Air Force-a broad-shouldered airman with grey curly hair parted down the middle, black eyebrows, a strong nose and a big jaw-named Nathan Farragut Twining...
...Maybe he doesn't like what he's doing, huh? Maybe he should get out of this business, huh? Maybe he should take up shoveling snow-we'll see if we can't arrange that." But the charge of "flat-hatting"*against aging (50) Airman Godfrey was not so easy to dismiss as an errant engineer. The charge was made by Fred...
...that he belongs to a superior race, Gruver at first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew a big, important secret." Through the newlyweds, Lloyd meets willowy, honey-skinned Hana-ogi, who teaches him the Japanese women's big secret ("They make their men feel important...
...airman had a tactical question: Why didn't the MIG pilots try evasive tactics when U.S. Sabre jets got on their tails? The North Korean explained that the Communist pilots preferred to hunch behind the protective armor at the backs of their necks rather than turn their vulnerable broadsides to the Sabre-jet fire. "Whenever we turn," he said wryly, "you kill...
...course in each direction to average out the wind. He flew just off the shore at 50 feet above the water, and when he finished he did a triumphant barrel roll to entertain the beach sitters. The Royal Aero Club announced that he had broken the record, but Airman Duke was not satisfied. After an early supper of cold roast beef, he made four more runs. His average speed of 727.6 m.p.h. exceeded the previous record (made by U.S.A.F. Lieut. Colonel William Barns-TIME. July 27) by considerably more than the 1% required for a new official record...