Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubleshooter. In 1943, he led a civilian mission to Italy to work on occupation plans. There he "saw a public-opinion poll in which seven out of ten American parents said they didn't want their boys to enter public life. Think of it! Boys could die in combat, but parents didn't want their children to give their living efforts toward a better America and a better world. I decided then that if I ever had a chance I would seek elective public office...
Expansion of the Air Force was following a schedule that would give it 126 combat wings, mostly jets of the latest obtainable types (plus 17 support wings), by the end of 1954. Under last week's Truman cuts, the Air Force now will not get to this goal until 1956. (It may have 126 combat wings in 1954, but they will include planes of obsolescent types, some of which have had heavy losses in combat with Russian-made jets in Korea...
...yards in front of the U.N. lines. A Korean farmer who crossed to safety in allied territory had told where the plane was, said that it had evidently crashed months before. A team of the U.S. Army's Graves Registration Service, covered by riflemen of the nearest combat unit, went out into no man's land to find the wreck. They found it-a jumble of twisted and melted metal. There were no dog tags, and nothing was left of the pilot but a charred skeleton...
...Directions. A light, hard-hitting automatic rifle is something that many allied infantrymen have been praying for ever since World War II. Combat experience showed that bulky semi-automatic rifles (i.e., one shot for each trigger pull), like the 10-lb. U.S. Garand, were too heavy, and fired too slowly for close-in defense. What the infantry wanted was a light rifle that would shoot accurately at long range, and could also double as a Tommy gun for close-in combat...
Somewhat surprisingly, the stories about World War II flying make dull reading, perhaps because aerial combat had become so formalized that one account seems pretty much like another. But Editor Jensen has dug up two first-rate items for his closing sections. Someone Like You is a poignant sketch of battle fear by Roald Dahl, a onetime R.A.F. pilot. And in The Three Secrets of Flight, Wolfgang Langewiesche, a onetime test-pilot, offers a superbly lucid discussion of the psychological adjustments men must make to survive...