Word: weyland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...servicemen, high civilian brass and Congressmen turned out for a unique demonstration of interservice unity. They were there to salute two four-star Air Force generals who, in distinguished careers in World War II and the cold war, had come to symbolize that interservice unity. The generals: Otto P. Weyland, 57, boss of Tactical Air Command, and Earle Everard Partridge, 59, head of North American Air Defense Command-both at the point of retirement...
...efficiency that airmen would have thought fantastic only two years ago. Yet next year, through an ingenious system of shifting and resting planes and crews, SAC intends to have two-thirds of its planes on a constant 15-minute alert. Meanwhile, the vanguard of General O. P. ("Opie") Weyland's Tactical Air Command lighter B66 twin-jet bombers, 6-458 and F-100D supersonic fighter-bombers meets a five-minute deadline...
More important, although the 101st was designed for airlifting, there are still general doubts about where its transport planes are coming from. Last May Air Force General Otto P. Weyland, boss of the Tactical Air Command, told a Senate investigating subcommittee that under present capabilities, the Air Force could not move a combat-loaded division from the U.S. to the Far East in less than "a week or ten days." The implication: the transports needed to move the 101st in trigger-quick time may simply not be available...
...Weyland at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, to the $600 million-a-year research and development plan under General Tom Power, the range of Air Force activity has never been equaled by any military unit in peacetime history. And this year the Air Force has entered upon a fantastic new era of supersonic flight that dawned even before the fantastic old era of transonic flight seemed fairly begun. These are the keys to the U.S. Air Force today: its range and its change...
...this week, as General Clark walked out of his Tokyo headquarters, Air Force General "Opie" Weyland raced up to him and asked breathlessly: "Got a hundred thousand bucks, Boss?" The general raised his eyebrows. General Weyland explained: a Russian-built, almost new MIG jet had just landed on South Korea's Kimpo airfield near Seoul. As U.N. airmen raced toward the red-starred, silver plane, the MIG pilot-a 25-year-old North Korean in a neat blue jumper suit -methodically tore up a picture of a girl friend, unstrapped his pistol holster, saluted smartly and surrendered...