Word: lockard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of radar stations were in operation. But only a handful of men knew how to run them. One man who did, Pfc. Joseph L. Lockard, was sitting at one on that fateful Sunday morning and spotted a large formation of planes. He notified Air Forces Lieut. Kermit Tyler, sole officer at the Information Center, who was there for training. Tyler thought Pfc. Lockard's planes were probably a flight of B-17s, due to arrive from the West Coast. "Forget it," said Lieut. Tyler, in effect. Said the Army Board: "By his assumption of authority he [Tyler] took...
...Private Joseph L. Lockard (the young man who stayed overtime to show a friend how to operate the Oahu plane detection system and who detected and reported the approach of a large flight of planes but, like everyone else, could not believe they were Jap) is now a lieutenant serving in the Signal Corps stationed in Louisiana...
Lieut. Joseph L Lockard, the ex-private who got the D.S.M. for reporting the approach of enemy planes at Pearl Harbor, was again assigned to Honolulu-frost-bitten Honolulu, Alaska...
...noticeable gap in this story of Near Eastern human development lies in the so-called Neolithic period, lying between the Palaeolithic nomadic hunters, and the highly developed Tell Halaf peoples, Lockard remarked...
...reason for the conjecture that man's first agricultural economy developed in the Near East is that botanical and zoological evidence points to this area as the one place where there existed all the wild plants and animals which became the basis of an agricultural economy, Lockard said...