Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked how long the U.S. should keep its air forces in Japan, grizzled Lieut. General Barney Giles, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, declared...
...Reformation. To speed the process General MacArthur and his chief military deputy, Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, began setting up special sections to oversee specific phases of Japan's reformation...
...Lieut. Commander Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who topped off his five years in service with combat duty off Okinawa and an assignment to the Naval War College at Newport, changed his mind about making the Navy a career and got his discharge. He announced the purchase of a country house in Republican-voting Woodbury, L.I., not far from the Oyster Bay stamping ground of the other (Theodore) Roosevelts...
...Mouse. In Salina, Kans., Lieut. Robert V. Krengle sued a bottling plant for $10,000, charged that a mouse in his nearly finished bottle of "coke" had permanently spoiled his appetite for soft drinks...
...come down at Chicago. But it was still the longest nonstop flight in U.S. Army history.* At Chicago they refueled and went on to Washington. Time for the 5,995-mile nonstop flight to Chicago: 25 hours, 43 minutes, an average speed of about 286 m.p.h. Said Lieut. General Barney Giles, commanding the flight: "This was a practical test, not a stunt." He added that planes soon will be flying back and forth without trouble all the time...