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Tanned and rested after a vacation at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, Olmstead and McKone said that they were ready for "any job the Air Force gives...
...test its ability to go over to a war tempo, and to convince Congress that it needs modernization, MATS mounted a 14-day, $10.6 million "Operation Big Slam." Into Puerto Rico's sun-soaked Ramey Air Force Base and Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, from 14 fields as far off as Hickam in Honolulu (6,000 miles), some 250 MATS planes began lifting 20,530 troops and 11,150 tons of gear. Last week Ramey roared with a take-off or landing every 3¼ minutes (Berlin airlift average: one every three minutes). Up to 101 planes were...
...President Eisenhower's jet took off from Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico last week, it left a stream of political smoke behind. With Ike in the big, orange-trimmed plane for a friendly chat en route to Washington went Luis Ferré, 56, the millionaire industrialist, accomplished pianist and M.I.T. honor graduate who is running for Governor on the Statehood Republican Party ticket in the November elections. The trip got big Page One headlines in Puerto Rican newspapers, and Candidate Ferré beamed: "We talked as one Republican to another...
...Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice chief of SAC; Lieut. General Roger Ramey (ret.), former commander of the Fifth Air Force in Japan; Lieut. General William Tunner, MATS commander; Lieut. General John Gerhart, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs; General Henry ("Hank") Everest, commander, Tactical Air Command...
...slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks and loan companies to cover them...