Word: taconic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast, furious and frequently confused. Officers and units were grabbed wherever the Pentagon could find them. Captain Allen C. Lambard, a radio air control officer stationed in Guam, was yanked out of bed and ordered to pack his gear at 2 a.m. Air Force Brigadier General Avelin P. Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that he was wanted in Formosa-immediately...
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