Word: haneda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special Pan American Constellation carried Marshall to Tokyo's Haneda airport, where he joined General Matthew B. Ridgway. They took a waiting C-54 and roared off to a forward area landing strip in Korea. Within minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left...
...starred Chrysler swung down the highway through the lanes of Japanese police and some 200,000 citizens who had been waiting since dawn to pay a farewell to the conqueror who had won their admiration. The car rolled to a stop on the broad apron of Tokyo's Haneda airport. Douglas MacArthur stepped out, his face drawn and grey beneath the battered, gold-laced cap. He shook hands with Matt Ridgway, the man Harry Truman had sent to relieve him, then stood at attention to receive a 19-gun salute. The farewells were brief and brisk, and, when MacArthur...
...general greeted us with: "I'm going on a little operation, and I'd like to have you boys with me if you'd like to go. I say a little operation-it's a big operation. You will leave Haneda [the airport between Tokyo and Yokohama] at 6:30 Wednesday morning. I've got a new plane," he continued, "and I'll follow you in that." Then, pointing his black pipe at us, he said with his quiet laugh: "But you bums will go in my old plane, the Bataan...
...ride overland in Japan since his arrival more than five years ago. One of the strangest facts about this great and strange man is that he has seen almost nothing of the country under his rule. His travels have been largely limited to occasional drives between Tokyo and the Haneda airbase eight miles away...
...airport in the Aleutians. Shemya was fogbound, but a MATS ground crew talked the ship down with GCA equipment, guided it to a perfect landing between the double white lines on the 10,000-foot runway. Then the Trader swung over the great circle route to Tokyo's Haneda airport. Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and six ships lent by the Royal Canadian Air Force later followed this northern route to Japan. Pan American, whose ten places make up the biggest private-line fleet in the service, led the way across the mid-Pacific via Hawaii. Eight other U.S. lines...