Word: mitchell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Tuesday afternoon the Atlantic Seaboard had its own air-raid scare. Planes from Mitchel Field, L.I. took the air (see p. 61). Improvised sirens sounded in the streets of Manhattan. Civilian planes were grounded. Schoolchildren were sent home...
...William O. Ryan, Chief of the Fourth Interceptor Command: "You don't send planes up unless you know what the enemy is doing and where he is going, and you don't send planes up in the dark unless you know what you are doing.") But at Mitchel Field, L.I. the alarm came in daylight, and although it was false the air force took off in good faith to defend New York City...
...result of a long distance telephone call from William J. Mitchel DBS station manager, to Robert S. Kieve '43, the Network's program director, the broadcast will be a radio dramatization of Thomas Wolfe's "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn...
After Pilot Scott's crash, Mitchel Field's Chaplain Paul J. Giegerich visited the next day attended the funeral as Air Forces representative. Because the Kramers are Orthodox Jews he advised fellow officers to send no flowers in keeping with Orthodox custom. But flowers were sent to the funerals of the two other victims of the crash, who were Roman Catholics. The request for a so-called damage-to-property report was routine, if undiplomatic at the time. It called for no waiver of damage rights...
...face of these facts, Mitchel Field's airmen were hard put to it to explain Mrs. Kramer's indictment. Some saw a glimmer of significance in the fact that the letter was printed as an exclusive story by Newsday, a bumptious local daily. Editor of Newsday is Alicia Patterson (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) daughter of Captain Joseph Patterson, isolationist owner of the great New York Daily News...