Word: airstrips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes the slightest exertion, his lungs feel as if they are bursting. Newcomers suffer from the nausea and lightheadedness of mountain sickness. Every item of supply, except water, must be brought up the roller coaster from the plains. There are few bits of earth flat enough for an airstrip, and helicopters have trouble navigating in the thin...
...m.p.h.) has given handsome, soft-spoken Bob White fewer problems than the P-51 he flew in World War II. Early in 1945, when only 20. White led a squadron of the Eighth Air Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip. Suddenly, the Bavarian landscape came alive with orange and black antiaircraft fire. A shell ripped White's engine to bits, spewing globs of oil on the windscreen. Recalls White: "We were on the deck. When the flak caught me. I jettisoned the canopy and jumped. I felt the parachute shock...
Ailleret raced to Le Rocher Noir, the coastal fortress that houses the French and Provisional Algerian administrations, confirmed Salan's capture to newly appointed High Commissioner Christian Fouchet. As Fouchet called Charles de Gaulle to break the news, a military transport roared off the Reghaia's airstrip, taking the old soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General...
...corrosion of the salt-laden ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
Wild Blue Yonder. Last week Starbird's team was rebuilding Christmas Island from the coral up. Shallow-draft lighters ferried in materials from ships anchored in deep water. Huge water-distilling plants arrived piecemeal in great crates. Engineers got ready to lay down an entirely new airstrip. A forest of long-range communications masts and antennas began to rise. Back in the U.S., task force ships docked on both the East and West coasts prepared to sail for the Pacific...