Word: radarmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radarmen of the Water Survey first focused on a thundercloud which had suddenly grown a tail (the large blob of light near top in first cut). This was the start of the tornado funnel, still high in the air and shooting toward the east at about 48 m.p.h...
...radarmen followed their storm for 50 miles into Indiana. Then their radio told them that a destructive tornado had followed the exact path they had watched by radar...
...A.S.D.E. the runways show up as black bands outlined by radar reflections from the knee-high grass that grows on their margins. Airplanes moving along them are not mere shapeless blobs; they are sharply defined bright bars, and experienced radarmen can even tell one type of plane from another. A car or truck shows up as a smaller rectangle, and a man who steps out of one shows as a bright dot. Any obstacle on a runway, such as a misguided truck or a disabled airplane, is spotted at a glance...
...been tending the long, silvery B-29 like acolytes, running their flashlights along her vulnerable joints, pumping her broad wings full of 8,000 gallons of high-test gasoline, gently hoisting a dozen 500-lb. demolition bombs into her wide bays. By 11 o'clock pilots, navigators, radarmen, engineers and gunners tumbled aboard for a 2,400-mile training flight. With them went Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, the handsome, battle-tested commander of the air base and "old man" of the Ninth Bombardment Wing, to keep a sharp eye out for mistakes...