Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request, to Formosa. Awaiting them was a heroes' welcome and the promise of jobs from the Nationalist government. But to the men who had been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
Famed, ruddy-cheeked, Old Polar Hand Bernt Balchen, colonel (ret.), U.S.A.F., who flew rescue missions with the 1925 Amundsen Arctic expedition, piloted Rear Admiral Byrd's plane America across the Atlantic in 1927, in 1929 flew with Byrd on the first aerial crossing of the South Pole, dropped in at Washington's Mayflower Hotel to reminisce with some old friends. Among them: Lieut. General James Doolittle (now a vice president of Shell Oil) and onetime Air Force Chief of Staff Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, now Civil Air Patrol head and director of four corporations. The two old flyers heard...
After that, the Reds picked up their old habit of giving their managers a fast shuffle. Only one, Deacon Bill McKechnie in 1940, won them another World Series. When his teams started losing, too, the parade of pilots resumed-Johnny Neun, Bucky Walters, Luke Sewell, Earle Brucker, Colonel Buster Mills and Rogers Hornsby. Then the Redlegs found George Robert Tebbetts...
Died. Kingoro Hashimoto, 67, onetime Japanese Imperial Army Colonel, who was implicated in the abortive 1936 "February Revolt," advocate of war against China and the West, imprisoned in 1948 as a "Class A" war criminal (released in 1955) of lung cancer; in Tokyo. Stocky, dynamic Hashimoto, whose narrow military training, ignorance of the outside world and hatred of foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline...
...depths of Russia and back again. It opens in the war's last days as Germany is crushed between East and West. Asch, who has risen from the ranks to become a lieutenant of artillery, is part of a disorganized unit surrounded by U.S. troops. A stray Nazi colonel named Hauk and his sinister aide, Lieut. Greifer, order an attack on a crossroads "with everything that can still crawl." Its nonmilitary purpose, correctly divined by Gunner Asch, is to let Hauk and Greifer escape...