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Visit of the Spirit. In 1939 the late German ace and parachute expert, Ernst Udet, visited Japan and inspected the Japanese Air Force. He is said to have reported to Hermann Goring that Japanese flyers, though brave and willing, were no sky-beaters. Part of the trouble was technical, part organizational. In 1940 Tomoyuki Yamashita was given his big chance, the job of reorganizing the Japanese Air Force. To his mind, the first thing to do was see how the Germans...
...arrested was tall, handsome, pleasant-voiced Frederick George Cummings, 28, an R.A.F. student pilot who had the reputation of being a brave, hard working and intelligent candidate for the Air Force, of being kind to his wife and child. The magistrate postponed the hearing until next month to let things quiet down, and handsome Frederick Cummings went to a cell. Once more, in the gloom around Piccadilly Circus, the streetwalkers took up their patrol...
...After the war, she persuaded the British Government to set up the world's first school of military medicine, organize sanitary rules, military hospitals. Said she: "You cannot improvise the sanitary care of an Army in the field." After Florence Nightingale came other medical heroes. In 1900, a brave band of doctors and volunteers in Cuba, headed by Dr. Walter Reed, allowed themselves to be bitten by infected mosquitoes, proved Dr. Carlos Finlay's contention (announced in 1881) that yellow fever was carried by Aedes aegypti. A few years later, by draining and oiling swamps, Dr. William Crawford...
...Legion's new assignment will be to find the necessary men to serve as pupils. For, in U.S. defense volunteer ranks last week, women outnumbered men. The U.S. male couldn't participate in all the activities open to the ladies. Only a sturdy soul could brave the jesting excited by such defense occupations as knitting. Defense officials were worried...
...says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...