Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army airstrip near Coburg, Germany, descended a Fieseler-Storch helicopter, and out stepped two young men in work clothes, followed by two well-dressed young women. In excellent English they explained that they had refused to join the Czech Communist Party and wanted refuge. The two men had worked for the Schiidlings-bekamp-fungsinstitut (Institute for Fighting Vermin), spraying plants with DDT from the copter. Instead of finishing their DDT run, they simply headed west. One of the girls had also worked for the institute, the other was just a friend. No romances, they said...
...found two wounded, half-frozen U.S. soldiers-a 19-year-old infantry corporal, and a 35-year-old pfc. in the artillery. They were the only survivors of a U.S. 155-mm. battery and its infantry guard, ambushed and annihilated three weeks ago. In an aid station at Wonju airstrip, the corporal and the pfc. told their stories...
...first rescue teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there...
...enough to give him trouble. Wonju was defended by the U.S. 2nd Division (which had taken a terrible beating in the Chinese November offensive), plus French, Dutch and South Korean units. They were supplied by airdrop from C-119s ("Flying Boxcars") and smaller transports which landed on a makeshift airstrip and took out wounded...
...Command had repeatedly provided the beleaguered troops with an aerial bridge to their bases. Day after day "flying boxcars" had swung low over the column to drop ammunition, medical supplies and rations. And eight miles back up the road at Hagaru, C-475 had set down on an improvised airstrip to pick up long lines of wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations...