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...money had been poured into long-range bombers, too little into tactical air support. They complained that the Air Force's tactical air power- as compared to close-hitting Marine aviation-was useless to the ground forces because it followed the doctrine of disrupting enemy supply lines and troop concentrations behind the lines...
...designs look good all the way back from the production models to the drawing board. After Korea, it worked hard to broaden its production base. In some cases, the Air Force deliberately paid more for planes just to get a new assembly line tooled up: e.g., the first two troop-carrying C-ngs to roll out of the new Kaiser-Frazer plant cost $1,000,000 apiece, as compared with the $314,000 price at the parent Fairchild plant. Said a production engineer last week, expansively waving aside Vandenberg's estimate of two years: "If they...
Valentín González, a fiery, black-bearded Spaniard, was once a Communist hero -and why not? The man had all the makings : 1) he was a landlord-hating peasant who could kill an enemy and sleep soundly afterwards; 2) he was a fine troop commander, a tough, natural leader who became a living legend during the Spanish civil war; 3) he was a Communist...
...clapped a tight brake on the rate at which the military may dip into its kitty to accept and pay for finished weapons for the U.S. armed forces. Of the $52.5 billion that the Pentagon had planned to spend this year, $14.1 billion is for fixed costs such as troop pay and maintenance; $10.8 billion is for military equipment too close to delivery to be canceled; the balance of $27.6 billion is for weapons now on order. Administration floor leaders warned urgently that the spending limit would force the military to slow down delivery on $6 billion worth of equipment...
...month will find scarcely a rifleman still facing the enemy who was in the lines before peace talks began last July 10. Under its troop rotation plan, the U.S. has sent back to the States more than 200,000 veterans since the start of the Korean war, 160,000 of them since July. Among the departed are most of the battlewise battalion and regimental commanders...