Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shadows. The strikes had been called when an American photo interpreter in Saigon spotted tiny new shadows in the latest air photographs of the camp. The pictures were the product of the 460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, whose relentless, tedious, and often dangerous activities provide 90% of the intelligence information on which American bomb strikes are based...
...night, the 200-odd planes of the 460th-the largest wing in the Air Force-criss-cross the skies of Viet Nam, snaking up infiltration trails, dodging mountains, flying through thunderstorms and flak, alone, unarmed, and always looking for Charlie. It is the toughest flying in the world, as its pilots-all veterans of proven skill-know all too well. In the past two years the "Recce" wing has lost 27 crews, including the six men aboard an RB-66 that was shot down last week northeast of Hanoi. But, says Captain Gale Hearn, 34, a onetime flying instructor...
...Prying Camera. Thanks to the Recce men, Viet Nam has become the most photographed war in history. Starting from scratch, the wing has made complete photo maps of all potential target areas and all possible enemy infiltration routes into South Viet Nam. Every month its 13th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron ("Recce Tech") processes and interprets an astounding 250,000 feet of film. Speed is the keynote. If pictures reveal a "hot" target, a strike can be ordered 20 minutes after the photo plane lands at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airfield-and can be carried out almost instantaneously...
From the moment De Gaulle arrived, everything pointed to success for the visitor from Paris. What with his defeat at the North Rhine-Westphalia polls fortnight ago and the constant badgering of the "Gaullist" wing of his party, Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France. In any case, he gave De Gaulle a reception that was far beyond what protocol requires for an ordinary working visit. Honor guards and anthems were in profusion, and Erhard's luncheon toast was especially cordial...
Hughes, inheritor of a $16 million fortune derived from oil-drilling equipment, had become chief stockholder of ten-year-old TWA in 1939. He and President Jack Frye pushed TWA into technological airline leadership with such innovations as the feathering propeller, the automatic pilot, wing and propeller deicers, and wing flaps for shorter and safer landings. Yet flashes of brilliance and even the visionary decision to put TWA into the overseas trade could not make up for the caprices of Howard Hughes, whom an associate once dubbed "the spook of American capitalism." He abhorred the details of decisions involving money...