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...Every airman in the squadron has flown 150,000 to 200,000 miles. Once the squadron had to take a month off to have its battered planes repaired. Only other vacation was a week on Cyprus...
Lieut. General George Kenney, the Southwest Pacific's air commander, announced the loss of his fourth key airman in three months: Major Kenneth Mc-Cullar of Batesville, Miss., partner with the late Major William Benn in developing low-level skip-bombing (TIME, Jan. 18). Major Benn and Brigadier Generals Kenneth Walker and Howard Ramey were lost in action, but Major McCullar's death was due to a freak accident...
This celebrity (Rosalind Russell) has been through: 1) heartache for a highflying airman (Fred MacMurray); 2) balm in the arms of a more securely grounded plane designer (Herbert Marshall). Undertaking the Government's secret instructions to lose herself and her plane, she is very, very much surprised to find that her navigator is to be Fred MacMurray. She also learns that the Japanese will find her before the U.S. Navy does. On a New Guinea hotel veranda, to off-stage sounds of tropical storm, she perceives that the way to serve her two men and her country...
Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold last week became the 13th* U.S. soldier, and the first airman, to wear the four stars of a general. The Senate confirmed the appointment immediately...
...minor part of an unsatisfactory situation remained. As chief of the Fourteenth Air Force, Claire Chennault was still under the command of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who is no airman, yet has no other fighting command in China. But airmen could see that the situation was much improved...