Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard's interceptor mission began at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, where he learned the working details of the radar warning net. After dinner he put on coveralls and crash helmet, headed for the "ready shack." There he was shown how to operate the plane's radar panel, which would pick up the other F94 sent out to be "enemy" and then guide the pilot in for the "kill...
...usual protective gadgetry: buoyancy gear, oxygen mask, parachute, etc. With such equipment bulging from his 205 lbs., he needed the help of five men to fold him into the tiny radarman's cabin behind the pilot. When they lowered the bullet-proof canopy, it banged against his helmet, pushed his face within six inches of the radar panel...
...Falkenhausen's brilliant career gave testimony in his favor. A professional soldier, he fought in the Boxer war, in World War I (when Turkey was Germany's ally) became chief of staff of the Seventh Ottoman Army. Between wars, he was a member of the Steel Helmet, a right-wing but anti-Nazi party. He retired from the Reichswehr in 1930, went to China as Chiang Kai-shek's military adviser, became his good friend and stayed on to help him fight the Japanese even after Germany had formed the Axis...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
Chinese amahs who never before had permanents have them now. Pedicab drivers who used to be barefoot are sporting new, all-leather sandals. The pith helmet is no longer the hallmark of the pukka imperialist; the helmets, many of them carefully coated with aluminum, gilt or yellow paint, sit grandly atop the heads of coolies. These days an Englishman would rather walk into the lobby of the Raffles Hotel without trousers than be caught wearing a pith helmet...