Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their New York City reception last week was warm enough to take the arctic chills out of their bones. When it was all over and they were all thawed out, they quietly slipped out of town, soon to return to duty...
...Search That Plane." As the broadcast opens, Santa is flying across the arctic wilds in his plane, The Spirit of Good...
This week, with no rescue yet in sight, the Navy joined the operation, sent the carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...
...force of about 20,000 (at present 13,663), specializing in Arctic and anti-submarine operations...
...army of 25,000 to 30,000 (at present 17,187), built around an Arctic-trained airborne brigade, with an armored brigade "if possible...