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...such a task force was being assembled. One sparkplug of it was Assistant Secretary Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, who last week was boosted to Under Secretary, a spot in which he can make his voice heard. A thrice-decorated World War I pilot, "Di" Gates is a red-hot airman...
...Then Airman-Infantryman Saunders became Seaman Saunders. He scrounged a sampan and sailed the Rangoon River southward. Soon he met British soldiers and passed the word. Then Rangoon was more fully and formally captured...
...AIRMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) Deming Army Air Field Deming, N.Mex...
...every airman knows, piloting a heavy bomber is a tiring job. To keep a plane steady in formation flying (especially in rough air and under fire), takes the combined efforts of the pilot and copilot...
...Army, where one airman ("Hap" Arnold) wears five stars and three old-time aviators are four-star generals, it was different. Last week an Army promotion list raised three aviators to three-star rank, making a total of ten Army airmen with the rank of lieutenant general. The three new ones: tall, handsome, 46-year-old Hoyt S. Vandenberg, boss of the Ninth Air Force on the Continent, and nephew of Michigan's Senator; bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker...