Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loading Time. No one ate very much lunch (a cold salad of macaroni and ham). At 2:45 p.m. the boat teams prepared to go over the side. I joined Captain Jaskilka's people. We stood there waiting for our wave to load into the landing craft. Ours was the third. The first wave was to hit the 9½ ft. sea wall at Inchon at 5:30 p.m. The second wave would be three minutes later. The third wave was to land at 5:40. These first three waves on Red Beach, a tiny plot of ground...
...watched the first two waves load. Just before our turn, he turned and said, "Oh God, I almost forgot...
...right," bawled Barnett, "lock and load. The runners go out first. You people know what to do. Keep your goddamn heads down...
...Consolidated Vultee B-36, a cigar-shaped aerial monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off the ground (a small submarine costs $6,000,000). The tanks in its 230-ft. wing can swallow 2½ tank-car loads of gasoline, enough to feed its six pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force insists, fairly well above the range of effective interception. Four new jet engines, hanging beneath the wingtips, were designed to give...
...their military girdles, LeMay found himself running the Berlin airlift as chief of U.S. air forces in Europe. One day a C-54 pilot at Frankfurt felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, looked up into the Old Man's three stars. "Son, I'll take this load," said LeMay. "Go and tell your dispatcher-and if he lets the other end know I'm coming he'll get hell from me." LeMay flew into Berlin, unloaded, then took his place in the take-off waiting line for 40 minutes...