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...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...
...five years that followed, the U.S., through no fault of MacArthur's, let slip in Asia opportunity after opportunity, and the illusion of security melted away. And so one morning last week, 70-year-old Douglas MacArthur drove through the rain to Haneda airfield outside Tokyo. Waiting for him there was the old Bataan, revved up and ready to go to South Korea, where U.S. and South Korean forces were clawing desperately at a bush-league army of Soviet stooges...
...which shrouded the Japanese capital, shook their heads. Staff officers urged the general to abandon the trip. At each objection the MacArthur jaw jutted out a little farther. "We go," said Douglas MacArthur. A little after 6 a.m. June 29, the wheels of the Bataan rolled down the wet Haneda runway, churning up a fine spray. Soon after the plane was airborne, MacArthur pulled out the corncob pipe which had been one of his World War II trademarks. "I don't smoke this back there in Tokyo," he said. "They'd think I was a farmer...