Word: aire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Adams spent most of its time grinding out short gains off the tackles, it scored one of its touchdowns through the air and the other on a pass interception. After two long drives had collapsed in scoring territory, Gold Coaster Roger Davis tossed a 20-yard scoring pass to Hank Foster...
Brigadier General "Mike" Scanlon (also now retired), Air Forces commander in New Guinea: "I don't know why they sent him up to New Guinea; he was not an operator and everyone from the kids on up knew...
...made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true, I recommended that he find somebody that was more competent. . . When Sutherland seemed to be getting a little antagonistic, I said, 'Let's go in the next room, see General...
Kenney also has some hard things to say about U.S. infantry in New Guinea, and he names units. His regard for MacArthur approaches near-worship, but MacArthur's whole staff is flayed repeatedly. Kenney, who lost his job as chief of the Strategic Air Command last year (he now heads the Air University at Maxwell Field, Ala.), may be too impolitic for peacetime Washington, but as a wartime trouble-shooter he ranks at the top. General Kenney Reports shows...
They used to tell you during the war it took 121 men on the ground to put one fighter plane in the air. Anyone who watches the behind the scenes activity at Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoons gets the same impression about fielding the Harvard football team...