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...friend raced back to notify the Air Force at McChord Field. Within 45 minutes a 6-17 roared over, dropped food, a radio, a small stove and warm clothes. Late that night National Park Service rangers worked their way toward the summit in 20-below-zero weather. Hodgkin said he sat in the cockpit, struggling to keep his frail craft from flipping over in the 70-mile-an-hour gale that howled over the peak. "That plane was-flying tied down," he added. "If those tie ropes had been longer, I'd have soared up like a kite...
...this stage of ex isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel, were to fly to McChord field, near Tacoma, Wash., this week to operate be tween there and Tokyo...
...burying ground contains two anomalies Samuel McChord Crothers, a great Unitarian minister and essayist, is buried here by his own request, though he was not even born until after the graveyard had retired from active service. In a far corner, near where Garden Street and Massachusetts Avenue join, lies an ancient mile stone proclaiming on one side over the date 1734 that the distance to Boston is eight miles and on the other side over the date 1794 that it is two and a quarter miles. Obviously there had been some improvements in transportation across the Charles...
After a breakfast stopover at Tacoma's McChord Field, the travelers climbed back into their four-motored C-54. Twinkly, brown-skinned Manuel Roxas, President-elect of the Philippines, paused to raise an arm in farewell for the cameramen...
Washington had been hot and steamy. But ever since morning the Presidential C-54 had bored steadily westward. Now, off in the cool Northwest evening, Harry Truman could see the dark green of fir forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...