Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's 499th Combat Engineer Battalion boarded nine C-119 Flying Boxcars at an air base near Stuttgart one afternoon last week. Their mission was to become familiar with the problems and advantages of moving themselves and their equipment by air. Within minutes, the 540 men and their heavy trucks and weapons disappeared into the yawning cargo holds, and the 20-ton planes took off over the Black Forest. It was perfect flying weather. As they flew along in tight formation, one engine of Plane 8 stuttered and cut out. The pilot requested and got permission to drop...
...flashed back to naval headquarters at Wonsan Harbor, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Kelvin Koelsch, a 27-year-old helicopter pilot from Hudson, N.Y., volunteered to try a rescue. It was the sort of mission Koelsch liked: he had voluntarily passed up rotation home after a long tour of combat duty because he felt that his rescue work was urgently needed. In the gathering dusk Lieut. Koelsch and his crewman, Aviation Machinist's Mate George M. Neal, took off, without fighter escort, to look for Wilkins...
Before he came to TIME in 1951. Harvard-educated ('36) Al Josephy was a New York Herald Tribune correspondent in Mexico. As a combat reporter with the 3rd Marine Division, he wrote two books about the corps, The Long and the Short and the Tall, and Uncommon Valor. Out of the service in 1945, he went to Hollywood and wrote movie scripts. Later, he edited three weekly newspapers in California...
...Adenauer had verbally given a hesitant Bundestag. By the time he got through, parliament kept for itself the power to pass on the Defense Ministry's organization, limited recruitment to 6,000 men (3,000 officers, 1,500 noncoms, 1,500 enlisted men), and prohibited the formation of combat units. Under this stopgap bill, which would expire next March, the volunteers would be used only to staff the Defense Ministry and military missions to SHAPE, to maintain military equipment received under the U.S. aid programs, and to attend courses at allied training camps. Jaeger also wrote a separate bill...
Where the military pioneered, citizens followed in vigorous and increasing waves. People who looked for a healthy climate, pleasant living, new opportunities and the freedom of elbow space found them in the desert. Modern technology was ready to help combat the desert's age-old barriers. A dozen years before, old settlers slept in wet sheets or went to bed in "submarines," welded metal boxes over which cooling water was pumped during the night. Now, at war's end, there was modern air cooling and refrigeration. In homes, offices and resorts, men found. they could live, work...