Word: chateauroux
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Less than 24 hours after the U.N. Security Council in Manhattan voted to send troops and aid to the beleaguered Congo, the first silver-bodied, red-tailed Hercules plane whined off the runway of the U.S. Air Station at Chateauroux in southern France. At Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina and at Dover Base in Delaware, ponderous Globemasters lumbered into the air. By last week 132 U.S. transport planes were flying across half the world in the vast United Nations airlift to and from the Congo...
Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...
...death of George Waite Goodwin, Law '17, Second Lieutenant in the United States Aero Service has just been reported from France. He died in the hospital at Chateauroux, as the result of wounds received in an aeroplane accident on July...
...Verdun, Brass, and Vacherauville from June 25 to October 24. He enlisted in the Air Service on November 5, 1917, and trained at Tours, St. Maixest, and Ecole de Chateaursoux. He was commissioned May 18, 1918. Lt. Goodwin was buried with military honors in the American cemetery at Chateauroux...
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