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During the convoy's return trip several unidentified planes were sighted. The jeeps emptied in a rush as their occupants dived for the cover of roadside woods. MacArthur did not dive. He stepped sedately from the black sedan, walked away a few steps and gazed nonchalantly at the sky until the planes were gone. Then he dusted his leather jacket carefully and returned...
...also been a half century of trench warfare and totalitarianism; of depression and monopoly and waste; of Hitler and war and dive bombers and Dachau and Buchenwald; and of the Bolsheviki and the dictatorship of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
Everybody agreed that the bird showed military dash throughout. After perching at an approximate parade rest itself for five minutes ("about 20 minutes," insisted Hughes later), it took off as the corps was dismissed, made a brief dive-bombing run on a bald-headed civilian in the grandstand, and then flapped away...
...Berlin area are Finow, Oranienburg and Strausberg. Each of these fields and most of those in the southern triangle boast at least a squadron of jets. On all the fields there are also fairly heavy concentrations of Russian fighters of older types, as well as light bombers, Stormovik dive bombers, transports and training planes. Many of the new concrete runways are being built with subsurface layers from 16 to 24 inches deep. The old Luftwaffe runways are to be lengthened to at least 6,500 and usually 8,000 feet, which will be adequate to the needs of the Reds...
Italians asked what the U.S. was going to do about this. The answer, though gently phrased, seemed to be "Nothing." All Italy promptly broke into an uproar, and the prestige of Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government took a nose dive...