Word: lowlevel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against this lethal fusillade are the fighter-bombers: the Air Force's Shooting Stars, Thunderjets and propeller-driven Mustangs, as well as the Navy's Panthers, Skyraiders and Corsairs from carriers off the east coast. The Shooting Stars and Mustangs, although admirable for "deck" work (lowlevel attacks), are no longer in production, and parts are hard to come by. The squadrons that fly them have had to cannibalize some of their planes in order to keep going. The pilots grouse about their dangers and difficulties, and they fiercely resent the Red sanctuaries beyond the Yalu, but they...
...colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother. The Department of Defense denounced it as a "terrible blunder," an example of "lowlevel thinking," disowned the report. But despite the storm that broke on the colonel, no one contradicted his facts-and no one took action against Major General Floyd L. Parks, Chief of Army Public Information, who had cleared his statement...