Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground job. He said that he had become afraid of flying. The Air Force turned down his request. Last December, when he was ordered to fly to England as copilot of a C124 cargo plane, Goodwin refused to obey. Last week at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, a court-martial sentenced him to two years' hard labor and ordered him cashiered...
Pilot Goodwin's story was no isolated case. At Randolph Field, Texas and Mather Field, Calif, last week, twelve other officers (navigators, bombardiers and one pilot) were also facing courts-martial for refusing to fly. At bases all over the nation scores more were flying under bitter protest...
...first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
...Army band from the Murphy General Hospital will provide martial general Hospital will provide martial music...
Last week Hilaly Pasha dejectedly stopped the clock: he postponed the May 18 elections. Muffled by censorship and martial law, the Wafd opposition called his action unconstitutional...