Word: airstrips
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...immense task, and the United States must play the greatest part. We are in a period of confidence and friendship that will bind France and the United States together." He spoke fervently, but not long. He concluded abruptly: "Long live the United States of America." Along the airstrip there were little pats of applause...
...Falalop was small, even for a sandspit, but a 3,300-ft. airstrip was carved out of it. Marine fighter planes moved in to protect the $20 billion worth of ships against Jap raiders. Navy planes were landed there as carrier battle replacements, and a transport-plane shuttle service to Guam and Peleliu was started...
This was not the first time that Chief Cachirere had called on Old Father for help. Years before, a planeload of prospectors had landed on a wilderness airstrip near the chief's village. With necklaces they had lured his pretty daughter into their plane, flown her away. The Chief had set out on foot in search of his kidnapped daughter. Months later, in the distant State of Paraiba, he had found the princess. Rondon, advised of the reunion, had Chief and princess flown back to the grateful tribe...
...bright, moonlit night when antiaircraft guns around Yontan airstrip in west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
Checking up later, U.S. officers found four more Japanese troop carriers crashed near the airstrip with some 70 occupants dead, and estimated that the original Giretsu attack had included up to twelve plane loads. Apparently the "unsurpassed loyalists" hoped to wreck the airfield, then filter into U.S. lines for sabotage...