Word: kindley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from California to Great Britain was having trouble with its radio compass. The pilot asked for a radio bearing, got it. It was three hours later when Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda heard from it again. This time the message was terse, urgent: the B-29 was running out of gas and preparing to ditch. A few minutes later the Coast Guard cutter Bibb heard a faint SOS. After that, there was nothing...
...airlines, would have to give U.S. landing rights to foreign airlines owned or controlled by competing steamship lines. The Committee skipped over what the U.S. had gained, the commercial use of leased British bases, many of which were built with U.S. funds, such as Bermuda's Kindley Field...