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...bomber had not so refrained: it had "passed over a screening ship and continued toward the center of the United Nations formation in a hostile manner. The bomber opened fire upon a United Nations fighter patrol, which returned its fire and shot it down." A U.N. destroyer fished the airman from the sea. His identification papers showed that he was Lieut. Gennady Vasilievich Mishin, serial number 25054. He was buried at Pusan...
Tireless Crusader. The CINCPAC who shrewdly broods over these matters is Arthur William Radford, 54, who has been a red-hot airman, a resourceful administrator, a crack staff man and a fighting carrier admiral. Above all, he has been a tireless crusader for Navy air-first against "battleship admirals" and later, in the great postwar unification controversy, against those who, Radford was convinced, were trying to nibble Navy aviation out of existence...
LeMay first landed on SAC in October 1948, relieving Sg-year-old General George Kenney, MacArthur's top airman in World War II. Kenney, a good commander, had neither LeMay's training as a long-range bomber specialist, his experience as a battle pilot, nor his hard-driving temperament. Kenney's bombers spent much of their time making easy training flights, "just boring holes in the air," as one of them recalls it. LeMay picked the outfit up by the neck, shook it in a way none of the oldtimers will soon forget, and flung it across...
...Angeles, he often hung back to take engines apart, work at machine guns, pore over weather charts and navigation logarithms. Result: after seven years in fighters, he was called from Hawaii to fly the first of the Army's Flying Fortresses because he was the rare Army airman who could find his way around with a navigator's sextant and chart. From then on his career was set as a big-plane...
...Dayton, the U.S. Air Forces Air Materiel Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...