Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceeding "step by step." In 1957 the Eisenhower Administration was embarrassed by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' scoff that Sputnik I was little more than a shot in a game of "outer space basketball." Last week the Kennedy Administration was monumentally embarrassed by an unwitting growl from Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, information officer for the U.S.'s astronautical Project Mercury. Awakened for a 3 a.m. comment on Gaga's flight, Powers snapped to a newsman: "If you want anything from us, you jerk, the answer is that we are all asleep...
...missionary in 1940, and was caught there by Pearl Harbor. In 1942, as he was trying to find a way to enlist, the war literally dropped in on him. He was taken one night by a native to a man who had fallen out of the sky. The fallen: Lieut. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. Birch led Doolittle and a group of the survivors of the Tokyo raid to safety, then joined the unit that later became General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and began a remarkable career in air combat intelligence. Wrote Chennault later: "Birch was the pioneer...
...pair of Sidewinders hung from the Air National Guard F-100 of ist Lieut. James W. Van Scyoc, 27, when he took off from New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and climbed to make some scheduled practice runs on an eight-engined 6-52 that was flying at 34,000 ft. Van Scyoc was an expert at handling the Sidewinder. Not only was he his squadron's safety officer, but he had written standard operating procedures on the use of the missile...
...Lieut. Cdr. R.N.V.R. (retd...
...alert will be a part of SAC life as long as there are any nuclear bombers in the picture (estimated until 1965). Costly as it is, the airborne alert is an economical way of stretching the effectiveness of the strategic bomber as long and as far as possible. Says Lieut. General Walter ("Cam") Sweeney, commander of the Eighth Air Force: "I think we'll never go back to not having...