Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramey's 58th Bombardment Wing gathered in the briefing room on Tinian. A group newly named Kagu-tsuchi (for a Japanese fire god) was scheduled to make a strike; for many of the B-29 crews, it would be their 35th mission-all they needed to complete a tour and get a U.S. leave...
...bounded out of the plane briskly, setting foot on English soil for the first time in his life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation Exodus" (the military-code designation for the visit) had unavoidably run into a snafu. Ground haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed...
Where the LeMay career will lead depends on the kind of men the postwar air world will require. Many "old" Air Forces generals of 50 and above swear they are going to leave the A.A.F. to younger men at war's end. After his tour as Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then...
...intellectual and cultural interests between Iran and America," Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, Professor of Law at the University of Teheran and Editor of the popular Iranian newspaper, Kaihan, spent last week at Harvard as the guest of the University. Accompanied by three other Iranian editors, Mesbahzadeh made a three-month tour of key cities as guest of the State Department and the Office of War Information...
...Songstress Jane Froman, brunette favorite of G.I.s. Since she was injured on her first tour, in the 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash, she has had 18 operations, is "finishing the job" on crutches. ¶ Comedians Jack Benny and Bob Hope, and Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by full companies of stooges and satellites...