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Help from the U.S. to China was said to be on the way at last. Chungking announced that U.S. bombers would be flown to Chinese fronts by Colonel Caleb Haynes, who has been running the air ferry to China from India. Carolina-born, 47, Colonel Haynes is a crack airman who once, from his transport plane, fought off a Jap fighter with a tommy...
...Washington when the Mitchell row burst into flame. After the trial, Hap went into exile at Fort Riley, Kans., but later he began the rounds again. By this time he was a well-educated airman, with service in all the branches of the Air Corps and assorted experience as commander of flying fields, director of all the CCC camps in California, student at the best Army schools...
...Arnold had gone into infantry when he left the Academy in 1907, switched to flying in 1911, taking lessons from the Wrights and becoming one of the Army's first four military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...
Britain was not brought to her knees by German bombers, but Germany can be brought down by Allied bombers. This is the belief of an airman with a gentle face and a furious tongue-Air Marshal Arthur Travers ("Ginger") Harris...
This man, Admiral King, is also an airman, as is his chief of operations, Rear Admiral Home. The Navy also undertook to tear down the walls between its many jealous bureaus (Ordnance, Supplies, Medicine, etc.) by putting all procurement under one man, Admiral Robinson. Symptomatically, in the naval building program, aircraft carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers have a new prominence. So has speed in all ships...