Word: baumer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's mission was a humiliation: traveling halfway around the world to beg justice for innocent men. But in eleven U.S. cities, from Redding, Calif. (the home of 22-year-old Air Gunner Daniel Schmidt) to Lewisburg, Pa. (the home of Pilot William H. Baumer), the families of the airmen thought only of the chance that, perhaps, he might succeed...
...confessed that the mission of his wing was "the introduction, supply, resupply, evacuation or recovery of underground personnel." The U.S. story is that Arnold's group was engaged in psychological warfare on a routine leaflet-dropping mission, that Colonel Arnold and his operations officer, Major William H. Baumer, went along for the ride. The Defense Department said the spying charge was "utterly false...
Colonel Arnold, a 41-year-old West Pointer and native of Silver Springs, Md., was sentenced to ten years. Major Baumer, 32, of Lewisburg, Pa., got eight years. Captain Eugene J. Vaadi, 33, of Clayton, N.Y., who was shot down near Berlin in 1945, got six years. Captain Elmer F. Llewellyn, 29, of Missoula, Mont, and Lieut. Wallace L. Brown, 28, of Banks, Ala. got five years each...
...mother of Major Baumer accused Washington of "dillydallying" but she was comforted when the White House called, assuring her that everything "humanly possible within peaceful means" was being done to get the Americans released. Said the State Department: "A most flagrant violation of justice." The British government was shocked out of its usual line of "Let's not be beastly to the Chinese Reds"; the Foreign Office called the imprisonment of the 13 Americans "outrageous" and promised to "do all in our power to mitigate this great, grievous wrong." Senator William F. Knowland called for "a tight naval blockade...
Under the El. Less than 13 miles from Berlin, on a railroad bridge, the three got into another gun fight with police. Baumer was hit in the belly and groin-and later, in still another gun fight, in the hand-but was able to keep going. When they reached an outlying station of the city's elevated railway, Ctirad Masin, who hid under a car, made it to West Berlin in one jump. The other two got there safely a little later. Thus three brave men had outwitted and humiliated thousands of Communist police...