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...turned out, Larry Norstad never commanded a squadron. In 1936, after four years of flying pursuit planes in Hawaii, he was brought back to the U.S. for staff duty, and by the time the U.S. entered World War II he was assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence, with a growing service reputation as the headiest young staff officer in the Air Corps. From then on, his rise into the military stratosphere was at missile speed. Tapped by the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold ("I need somebody to help me do my thinking"), Norstad became a peripatetic planner. Starting...
...right, but then the scriptwriter starts to apply the Hollywood icing, and what glop it is. The sergeant has hardly anything to do with ordinary enlisted men, spends most of his time giving unsolicited advice to colonels and generals, who seem enormously impressed and grateful. The C.O. of his squadron, a lieutenant colonel (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), falls in love with the sergeant's daughter (Natalie Wood), but the sarge does not think the colonel is good enough for his girl. So one day at the base he chews the C.O. out and threatens to quit the Air Force...
Some 100,000 partygoers jammed into New Delhi's National Stadium to wish a happy 68th birthday to India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Thousands of schoolchildren sang and danced, released a squadron of white peace doves, and squealed their delight to smiling Chacha (Uncle) while he tossed them scores of marigold garlands...
Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend...
...squadron of French fighter planes promptly set out in pursuit. From the air, the tribesmen were easy to spot in the bare sands. Machine guns chattering, the planes made pass after pass. They did not stop until every camel was dead. "Without their camels," said a French spokesman at headquarters,"the surviving Shamba. if there are any, will die of thirst in the desert...