Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guam's Andersen Air Force Base was the chief jumping-off point for U.S. bombers during the days between the sudden U.S. resumption of the bombing and its equally sudden cessation last week. When TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel visited the huge B-52 fleet there last April, the mood was mild and the pilots easygoing. Last week Nickel found a far grimmer spirit-at least until the bombing runs over the North were halted once again. His report...
...three full hours a seemingly endless stream of the huge war machines thundered past Charlie Tower, at the end of Andersen's 12,000-ft. runway, to get final takeoff clearance. Then they roared mightily down the gentle decline of the salad-bowl-shaped runway, howled back up the last stretch before finally lifting their 490,000 lbs. off the ground, jet exhausts trailing thick clouds of black smoke...
...ferocious intensity of the raids stunned even the 11,000 airmen at Andersen and the 90,000 Guamanians for whom the sight of B-52s and bomb-laden trucks has been routine since 1965. Base security measures were tighter than ever: information officers would not comment on operational matters; pilots and crewmen were ordered not to talk to outsiders. Such strictness was understandable-but almost certainly the North Vietnamese knew far in advance that the raiders were on their way. One of the permanent features of life in Guam is a radar-studded Soviet trawler that works just...
Since the arrival of a second B-52 wing last spring, Andersen has been jampacked. Many ground crewmen were forced to move into hastily assembled prefabs and tents to make room for new flight crews in their comfortable, mostly air-conditioned barracks. If ground crews weren't being kept so busy, the griping would have been heavy. As it was, however, armorers and mechanics now were putting in 16-hour days and seven-day weeks. Though precise turnaround time to prepare a B-52 for another run is classified, the usual period that is required for regular maintenance...
...well that Four Seasons was worth nowhere near as much as they publicly claimed, these insiders sold off large chunks of their holdings through numbered accounts at Walston. Clark alone was accused of pocketing more than $9,000,000, most of which is believed to be stashed in Europe. Andersen officials promised to "vigorously" defend their employees in the case; Clark and Miller were not talking at all. Having allegedly rigged a grand numbers game with Four Seasons, the eight had some new figuring to do: if convicted, all face variable prison terms, as well as fines on the indictment...