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Offutt Field near Omaha. –
Headquarters of Uncle Sam's offensive and defensive land based air power.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1948.
"A must for defense". An adequate rABAT SETEEN to uner US Air Detensez in time to intercept enemy
Copyright Map by Detje.
AIR POWER BASE IN U.S. GEOGRAPHICAL CENTRE
U
By George Carroll
TNCLE SAM is about to "training" flights, they take orders
ancher both his offensive from one source-SAC HQ.
This core is now going to be and defensive land-based
shoreline, moved back from the air power in the geographical hielded a little more from sudden, centre of the United States, hostile attack. sheltered to the West by the Rockies and the East by the Alleghenies.
This may or may not be the reason why the man who origi- nated "Operation Vittles" to break the Russian blockade was summoned home from Germany,
But his first big job as new chief of the Strategic Air Com- mand will be to move its head- quarters 1,000 air miles inland to Offutt Field,
near Omaha, Nebraska, from Andrews Fiell. outside Washington, D.C.
The man is L-Gon. Curtis LeMay, who crippled Japan B-29 Superforts. Now, once he
will wield the weapon American strategic air power.
ITS MISSIONS
bat
E.
with inore
Thats what SAC represents, for, as one of the three principai com- commands of the Ú, S. Air Force, it flies better end faster B-20 Than Lehlay had buck in 1944- and also a dozen B-30s, mightiest
of all the world's bombers.
of ex-
of
But this is only part of the story. its new location has not Though its yet been disclosed, headquarters the Air Defence Command, a second member of the combat trinity, in to be moved to the same general
area of the Midwest from its present exposed site on the doorstep of New York City nt Mitchel Field. Long Island. Mitchel is miles from Offutt,
1,175 air
THE LEFT JAB ADC. headed by L.-Gen. George E. Stratemeyer. veteran of the Southeast Asia theatre, represents the defensive, or left jab. of the USAF, as distinct from SAC's Sun1- day punch.
Stratemeyer's
air Ono
responsibility is defence of Continental United States, with both regular fighter squadrons and those of the Air National Guard, plus the re- servists.
He commands the four regular Air Forces stationed in numbered the country--the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and strategically spotted to 14th, cover the national approaches.
As it stands today, both the head- quarters of SAC and ADC sit on the edge of the Atlantic seacoast only
Its mission is to deliver the A-10 minutes apart by fast jet fighters. bomb--or any other kind plosive-to any required spot o
the map.
Heart and bralas of the organise tion is SAC HQ. Wherever the big Lombers Toam On their global
The third of USAF's combat arms, Tactical Air Command, led by Lt. Gen. Elwood (Pele) Quesada,
re- mains at Langley Field, Hampton. Virginia, close to the headquarters of the Army's held forces.
This is desirable because Quesada's Job is to work closely with the foot soldiers and para- former air support and moving the latter about with his troop.carrier squadrons of C-82 Flying Boxcars. Langley 1,075 air miles from Offutt.
LEMAY'S SURVEY
Popular Music troopers, giving the
NEW singles:
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Two re-issuer of Freddie Sluck's excellent boogic pland are belter than most of the new platters being released, "Cuban Sugar Mili" and From his new command past out- "Inetto" (Capitol). Top-notch side Omaha, LeMay will be in Calypso sides are included an an position to look towards Alaska and Edmundo Ros importations, "Rela-Korea as well as the troubled scene "bomber run" tives, Relatives" and "No Money" in Europe and the (London).
that cuts both ways across the North Atlantic.
Two hits from the now Walt Dis- I is only 2,000 atr miles from ney picture are sung by Dinah Shore Offutt to Ladd Air Force Base. with fine depth of feeling, the title Fairbanks, Alaska, oldest and best uir base In the north song, "So Dear to My Heart," and American "Lavender Blue" (Columbia).... [polar region. Matty Malneck's Orchestra is hailed
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
the United
TC-
States
as the originator of "creative jazz," cently declared
new mode recorded by MGM with should make Alaska a major base. "Soft Shoe Sam," having tap danc-He also commented: "Next in de- Ing depicted by various musical in-fence-and struments, and "Wings Over Mars," radar
this a 'must'-is a ECTeen from Alaska across
Arctic..
Strange" (Victor)...The Murphy our continent and industrial cen- Sisters should twist a few hearts tres." with "To Make a Mistake Is Human"
"very not
I war comes, LeMay's heavies" will be taking off, from Offutt, but from long runways here and there around the world, much closer to targets.
MEET A HERO AND FORGET THE HOCUS-POCUS
THE PLAGUE. By Albert whoso altar Paul found on Mor's
Camus. Hamish Hamilton.
Ds. 6d. 285 pages.
THE
that ugly
of
"The Plague" is an unherole re- cord of heroism, an account pestilence in which the horrors
HE plague begins in Oran, are not over-played, a detached Franco-Arab but ultimately favourable judgment Dr on mankind, in whom "there are more things to admire than to
commercial town, when Rieux sees a rat spin round and despise." die, in a bloody gush, at his feet. Soon thousands of rate are dying, with the utmost pub- llcity.
The doctors and municipal au-
de thorities, after unconscionable lay, recognise the obvious, Oran Is locked up with its fearful enemy. It must live or die alone, helped from outside by Inadequate druga and encouraging broadcasts.
This is the story of how
Oran
reacts
to
the calamity. In parti cular, it is the story of how a handful of men, led by Dr Rieux, fight
ninat the
an ill-armed,
epidemic
perhaps
pointless, and therefore
herole battle.
Camus, who
one
of
FATHER. By Sarah Campion. Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d. 248 pages.
DRC G. COULTON
crotchety old curs and no mis- take. Ho Was: a
at history Don the terror, Cambridge, and
and Joy of his family. haustion
suffered under this What theso eccentric tyrant is related by his daughter Sarah with something more than Alial piety and with no uncritical affection.
[Georgov Maitolm
It father could answer back he might point out that an old gentleman of 80 is entitled to indulge his whims. Dr Coulton, above most thing in life, enjoyed a controversial bout with Roman Catho-
tells their story, a. lie ecclesiastics. A harmless enough French diversion, in which many men since
those *postwar authors whose fame has crossed the John Knox havo delighted.
But Dr Coulton's daughters be Channel wrapped in a thick fog of
hysterical trying to have hocus-pocus. Like his friend and come
from this self-indul- e-national, Sartre, he is supposed their father
out that he by many to reveal a new philosophy fence. Sarah points of life. What it is, nobody can ex- would have made much more money Sartre. Camus, by writing something different. A It plain, least of all thank heaven, does not try to do so. miserable point of view surely.
have forbidden Zola to "The Plague" can be read with would
"'3'Accuse." and prevented put any worry about The Truth, write
Voltaire from wasting potential The Meaning, or any other dublous
on the victims of characters in capital letters. It is earning power an impressive and gripping narra- persecution,
Besides, dialectical pugnacity was tive.
an essential part of Dr Coulton. It THE heat in the beleaguered town, was what made Father lick.
Father is strongly recommended the winds of popular emotion,
entertaining portrait as the
of a shifting between Jauntiness
cantankerous, spirited and lovable despair, the ghostly ironies of the Englishman. epidemic all these Camus picks out with the hard, selective eye of the Kood reporter, as if he were cover- ing "the Oran disaster" for Reuter. But he does not see merely the outside of things, as Journalist;
and
SWITCHBACK.
Brian Lunn. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 15s.) 264 pages.
WHO
has the right to publish an autobiography? Everybody, One of LeMay's B-30's made ahe sees into them, as a poet,
Dr Rieux is helped by Tarrou, on perhaps? Or only great men when fight of 6,000 miles not nonstop long ago at an average speed of 300 idealist ("Can one be a saint with- they are old? Or only very good
-that's the problem I'm up writers? miles per hour and with a grossout God?
against"), by Rambert, a journalist I am not quite sure, but I think weight of 155 tons.
who wants passionately to escape it should be only very good writers. from the town, by Grand, a modest In other people such self-revelation super- clerk who cannot complete the first seems, though well meant,
candid, when really sentence of his epoch-making novel, fluous and, and by. Father Pancioux, the Jesuit, even indelicate.
Reading Mr Lunn's frank account who preaches that the plague is a
of his marriage and divorce and at- blessing in disguise, and talls man- fully to defeat that blessing.
templed suicides, I felt as I do when If Paneloux cannot reconelle his singled out for confidences by a action with his belief, none of the stranger in the train: "Why does he athers can. reconcile their nations think that I want to know all this?" with their lack of belief. Their And that in spite of the fact that found his personality not Un- deeds are absurd and illogical. Are I they the martyrs of an unformulat- sympathetic and his lack of hypocrisy
unknown god admirable, ed religion, of the
But the man calling signals will be close to the heart of the USA with everything at his finger-tips and his vital working headquarters about as far removed from counter attack as Americans could put it in
the atomic age.
Mr. Pentecost builds an 'air motor-cycle'
ROTOR BLADES (Span: 16 ft.)
CONTROL-STICK
*COCKPIT' STRAPS
TRIPOD UNDERCART
(Wheels: 6" diameter)
2-CYLINDER ENGINE
PETROL TANK
| THROTTLE-KNO
THE HOPPI-COPTER JUST 'LOAFS ALONG'
By BASIL CARDEW HORACE T. PENTECOST, S9. Whatever you do to the stick, the with an accordion caricaturing a jet-Canada to Greenland and Iceland; Seattle, U.S.A., drove me to an trolled the plane;
year-old aero engineer from loppi-Copter will do, too."
So with my right hand I con- the left hand a ser
semi-circle In the propulsion plane (MGM)....
would, give us tho opportunity to airfield west of London the worked two knobs by my hip-ho.
and the accelerator. Nu Coleman Hawkins' saxophone
warn our strategic air bases and the other day to demonstrate his clutch technique la displayed at its best air defences in time to intercept one-man machine for "walking als, clocks, or meters.
The Hoppi-Copter lands or takes with April: In Paris" and "How the enemy before he could reach in the clouds.”
off in a cleared area only 30 feet He designed it, he says, “Just to square, has a carrying capacity of From Offutt to Meeks Field, lec- loaf plong a few feet above
the 250lb, and will dy for an hour on the ground at a snail's pace, to hover, two and a half gallons of normal and "Whose Heart Are You Breaking land, busy transit point for 'Now?”. (Apollo.).
bombers and transports of World or play tag with the clouds." War II. it Is 3,250 miles.
The Hoppl-Copter, as he calls the pump spirit. Celling is 12,000 feet. machine, was in a bangar.
I suppoŝo," said Pentecost, "you pushed tho eight-feet high would really call, it the motor-cycle tubular akeleton on its tripod under- of the air. Cruising speed is 40 to
Wes casier carrloge. It
than 00 miles an hour. total អង pushing
don't do much with small a motor-cycle. Ita weight is only 1801b.
engines in the States, so. I have On the tarmac Pentecost showed fixed up with a Bournemouth firm me the worics.
to bulld the, 35 hp engine--and
➡DAVID C. WHITNEY.
·DAB and· FLOUNDER
By WALTER
I strapped myself into a canvas probably the whole Hoppi-Copter. backed seat and put my feet into "It may be a year before we bre leather-strapped
steci "sandals. In production
and then we should Someone pulled a cord which start- be exporting to Amerien."
One Hundred Miles-For Six
Shilings
In the saddle: Horace T. Pentecost.
OFF CLOUD-WALKING
The Hoppi-Copter goes up.
P. 8-I asked the inventor what
ed the two-cylinder engine in the The Hoppl-Copter is also In- way a dinghy's outboard motor is toreating the Ministry of Supply. alarted.
Its engineers and fliers are to put it would happen if the engine stopped You will be able to do every air through a thorough test, pr manoeuvre with, the single control stick," said Penfocost.
Twist it, move it up or down, 'backwards, sideways, or forward
A £250 hover-plane that takej you 100 mile for six shillingt cluding cost of petrol and off-will be cheaper than train farON.
· in mid-air. He says that the out- tomatic free-wheeling clutch would allow the rotors to go round like a falling loaf, and the Hoppi-Copter would font down gently.
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