Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people remembered, and were reminded of Pearl Harbor-but this wasn't the same; the shock wasn't so great, and in nine years everybody had learned something about taking crisis news in stride. Rather than feeling alarm at the risks, many seemed to be grateful for the end of an era of uncertainty. The Christian Science Monitor's Washington bureau chief, Joseph C. Harsch, a resident of the capital for 20 years, reported: "Never before in that time have I felt such a sense of relief and unity pass through the city...
...most bombing missions, however, Stratemeyer relied on the famed 19th Bomb Group, Colin Kelly's old outfit, which had been trapped in the Philippines on Pearl Harbor Day. In all their operations the U.S. planes were hampered by lack of advanced bases and air-ground communication with the South Korean army. And for the first three days after they entered the fight, U.S. fliers were hamstrung by a Washington order to strike only at the airfields south of the 38th parallel. That meant that they could not get at the source of North Korean air power...
...been in Tokyo. General MacArthur's chief air officer, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, was somewhere on the West Coast, on his way back from service on an officers' selection board in Washington. The chief of naval operations for the South Korean navy was in Pearl Harbor, picking up some PCs turned over by the U.S. Vice-Admiral Arthur D. Struble, boss of the U.S. Seventh (Asiatic) Fleet, was a long hop from his Manila headquarters: he had flown to Washington, B.C. to attend the marriage of his daughter...
...passengers waited at the Minneapolis airport, desperate and weary. Alarms went out; planes and ships headed out into the storm, to criss-cross Lake Michigan, looking for wreckage. Close to the hour when the Northwest aircoach was due over Milwaukee, a woman on the Michigan lake shore near Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke in the lightning's glare." He took...
...traditional peace sects regarded pacifism as a Christian commandment, to be followed regardless of the consequences. It became diluted between World Wars I & II, says Holloway, by the social thinking of liberal Protestants who hoped to use Christian ideas to reform society. Up until Pearl Harbor, denunciations and renunciations of war "as an instrument of national policy" rang out from many church conventions. But when war came, most churchmen gave it their support...