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• Anne Hale: The Case of the Communist Teacher
  
  
• Baseball: A Way of Life
  
  
• Chuck Taylor Hightops: WHS Basketball
  
  
• The Baby Boom Explodes
  
  
• "Mrs. Everywoman"
  
  
• Warriors Football
  
  
• Nightlife Up in Smoke: The Mansion Inn
  
  
• Not-So-Fast-Times at Wayland High
  
  
• The Sirens of Wayland: The Police Department
  
  
• Cold War Wayland: Nike Missile Site & Raytheon
  
  
• Keeping Up wit the Joneses: Consumerism in the Town Crier
  
  
• A Sense of Community: The Strawberry Festival
  
  
• Newsletters to Those at War: The Bugle and the Jeep
  
  
• A Quieter Life: Coming Home from World War II
  
  
• Duty Calls: Veterans of the Korean War
  
  
• A Simpler Time: Growing Up in Wayland
  
  
• Old Meets New: Dudley Pond
  
  
• Flash Movie
  
  

The Korean War was the first war in which jet propelled planes were used in combat. At first it appeared that propeller driven planes would quickly become obsolete, but the military soon found that they still served a purpose. Jet planes were traveling too fast to pick out targets amid the Korean foliage. Propeller planes were then used as scouts to identify targets and then radio the coordinates in to the jets which were armed with rockets and bombs. This led to the formation of the tactical group that came to be known as the Mosquitos, because the enemy would hear the buzz of the propellers and know that they were about to be "stung".

Thanks to Richard Souza, Locator of the Mosquito Association, for providing these materials.