Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief advantage of the GHQ Air Force will be greater mobility and striking power. The Force will be divided into three "wings"-Atlantic Wing, with headquarters at Langley Field, Va.; Pacific Wing, at Hamilton Field, Calif., and Southern Wing, at Fort Crockett, Tex. (later to be moved to Barksdale Field, La.). A highly centralized combat unit of nearly 1,000 planes, the GHQ Air Force was officially regarded last week as the greatest move since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces...
...letter from Governor Allen to Reader Crockett...
...Dear Mr. Crockett...
...DAVID CROCKETT...
...haul, but he did begin to find sport in shooting down, without provocation, people who got in his way-filling station men, constables, plain citizens. In two years he, Bonnie Parker & gang were credited with twelve murders, including one when he staged a prison farm delivery near Crockett, Tex. (TIME, Jan. 29). An awe-struck Press magnified him into one of the "worst killers of the Southwest." One morning last week Captain Hamer, who had been following Barrow from hideout to hideout, received a tip that Parker and Barrow would soon pass down a road near Arcadia...