Word: airstrips
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...commune known as the "People's Temple." Accompanying him were an aide, a U.S. embassy official, eight newsmen and leftist attorneys Mark Lane and Charles Garry, who were representing the commune. From Georgetown, the capital, the party chartered two planes to reach a dirt airstrip 145 miles away. Then they rode 20 miles by jeep to the isolated, armed commune of some 1,100 fanatical members...
That will take some doing, as Denard has shown no signs of quitting his island stronghold. Each night, fire trucks and service vehicles are drawn up on the airstrip at Moroni airport to keep unwelcome visitors-including a commando force that Uganda's Idi Amin has threatened to launch-from dropping in. "If the people ask us to leave," says Denard, "we'll be gone the next morning. If they don't ask us to leave, it will take 100,000 Cubans to throw us out." It appears that the old mercenary has found a home-until...
...first summit conference of the American state and the Chinese revolution, unannounced. Because it was a dull afternoon, John Paton Davies, the State Department's political adviser to Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder...
...naval victory at Midway Island stopped the Japanese tide in the Pacific and enabled Americans to take the initiative. On Aug. 7, 1942, Marines landed virtually unopposed on Guadalcanal and captured a vital airstrip that was renamed Henderson Field, after a pilot killed at Midway. Already ashore for many months were teams of coast-watchers who had taken to the wild highlands, where they played hide-and-seek with Japanese patrols and relayed information about enemy installations...
...demonstrated, fortunes of the Pacific war could change as quickly as the tropical weather. A daring Japanese sea attack at Savo Island gave the U.S. Navy one of the worst beatings in its history and left Marines on Guadalcanal stripped of support. A year later, the island and its airstrip were dramatically saved-a rescue made famous by Richard Tregaskis in his book Guadalcanal Diary (1943) and by Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Anthony Quinn, et al., in the movie version...