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...shot. The bullet hit the windshield, and I could not see through it. I drove as fast as possible toward Potsdamer Strasse. Two more bullets hit the bus. One went through the coat of an officer sitting behind me." One of the passengers was 13-year-old Kristin Norstad, daughter of Lieut. General Norstad, commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. She called the incident "the most exciting adventure since Hopalong Cassidy." In all, the police fired 12 to 15 shots...
...Operation Swarmer the Air Force has assembled virtually all the troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
...taken the Army and Air Force nearly four months to set up Swarmer. The U.S. has no war headquarters to direct such mock warfare, much less run a real war. Norstad had to borrow his headquarters supply command from the New York Port of Embarkation...
...when Nimitz became Chief of Naval Operations, he gave Sherman the job of working out the unification agreement. Sherman dutifully sat down with his friend Lieut. General Lauris Norstad of the Army Air Force and negotiated agreement. To the anti-unification Navymen, led by Vice Admiral Arthur Radford, this was just short of treason to their service. When Denfeld brought Radford to Washington as his vice chief, Sherman went off to take command of the Mediterranean Fleet...
There was little doubt as to the man the Administration wanted as Denfeld's successor. He was Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman who, as Deputy Vice Chief of Naval Operations, had committed the Navy sin of joining with the Air Force's Lieut. General Larry Norstad as one of the original authors of unification. When integration came, Forrest Sherman was bundled out of Washington to become commander of the Sixth Task Fleet in the Mediterranean. This week Secretary Matthews smuggled him home on a civilian airline to offer him Denfeld...