Word: hickam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the launching, nine C-119 Flying Boxcars, fitted with gadgets designed to snag the parachute in midair, took off from Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base to hover over the target area. Two Navy recovery ships patrolled the ocean below in case none of the Boxcars managed to hook the parachute. Like its predecessors, the Discoverer VIII capsule was designed to float, flash lights and beam directional radio signals to guide the search...
...acres): sugar (1,000,000 tons annually; $150 million), pineapple (30 million cases; $115 million), tourist attractions (175,000 visitors a year; $65 million), coffee, oranges, beef, coconuts, 900 species of flowering plants and trees. U.S. military forces (60,000) deployed in complex of airfields, Navy and Army bases (Hickam Air Force Base, Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks). Pop. 600,000: Japanese (38%), Caucasian (20%), part-Hawaiian (15%), Filipino (13%), Chinese (7%), pure Hawaiian (3%), Puerto Rican and Korean...
...Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base, they went through the mill of physicians, psychiatrists and intelligence officers. Colonel Heller, whose left leg had been broken when he parachuted out of his crashing plane, has undergone repeated surgery in a Chinese hospital, now has a plate in his shortened leg, and probably will need further surgery. Lieut. Parks had an eye ailment; Captain Fischer needed dental work. But in general, all four were in good health. The clothes that had. been bought from, pre-prison measurements fit fairly well...
When official word of their release came through, Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott personally telephoned the families of the four men to say that the Air Force would fly them to Honolulu for a reunion. After the big Air Force Constellation carrying the families landed at Hickam, the first passenger out of the door was Judith Heller, who had gathered together a whole "trousseau" for the reunion. She paused, looked at the husband she had not seen for 34 months, and gasped. From the throat of Airman Heller there came a choked cry, and then he bounded...
Playing Along. In the foliage-shaded garden off the Hickam Officers Club, the four men met the press. They seemed at ease before the microphones and the cameras, and answered questions promptly and clearly. But they left much untold. As their condition showed, they had been treated well, as Communist treatment of prisoners goes. They had been in solitary confinement from six months (Lieut. Cameron) to 26 months (Colonel Heller), but they were not otherwise physically abused. The food was a Chinese rice diet (with side dishes, said Colonel Heller, that "ranged from seaweed to bird's-nest...