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...returned from the war, where they served in all theaters and earned their share of awards and rank (plenty of brass, including one lieutenant colonel), have gone on to jobs in TIME more suitable to their maturity and experience. Their postwar replacements have been largely veterans, too: combat infantrymen, Navy fighter pilots, an Army Air Forces Captain who had his own squadron in the Pacific, and a sprinkling of durable Marines...
...tension was even greater. A Government "fortress" went up last week in the heart of the New City. The British evicted shopkeepers and business firms along Jaffa Road, stretched tangles of barbed wire from rooftops to the ground and along the road. Sandbagged guard posts manned by grim-faced infantrymen and paratroopers in maroon berets hemmed in the precincts of the British rulers. Tommy gunners covered everyone entering Barclay's Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried on a "telephone terror," threatening bombings (the blasted walls...
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen. On the drawing boards is an even larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...
Across Belgium, over the German frontier, into the Saar, halted and thrown back in the Battle of the Bulge, surging forward again in the great Rhine offensive, the tanks and infantrymen of Bradley's great armies rolled on. On May 8, 1945, the tall, spare infantryman said to one of his staff: "With hostilities over, now our troubles really begin...
...Navy airmen had feared an attack by economy-minded Congressmen on their most precious perquisite-flying pay. For flying more than four hours a month they get 50% added to their pay. The attack had not come during wartime, when combat conditions tend to equalize the hazards of the infantrymen and the aviator, but it came in Congress last week in the brave new light of peace...