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Modest Mr. Lovett would rather have the credit go to such professional airmen as Major General Henry H. Arnold (Deputy Chief of Staff), Lieut. General Delos Emmons (commander of the General Headquarters Air Force, who has long fought for more bomber-power) and Major General George H. Brett (Chief of Air Corps, who was not so foresighted). They and their new civilian boss mutually respect each other, get along very well...
...most novel idea came from the Air Corps's Major General George Brett, who announced that Army planes would swoop in mass formation over struck plants, to show strikers "what they are working for." Congressman Dies, who has cried "Wolf!" so long & loud that he has almost turned public sympathy against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, croaked incessantly of Communists, demanded the purging from labor of all Reds. In Washington, an Army officer wagered even money that the first target of U. S. armed forces would not be enemy troops but U. S. citizens...
Since 1939, the GHQ Air Force has been under the direct command of the Chief of Air Corps. Last week George Marshall changed that setup too. To the Chief of Air Corps (a post now temporarily filled by Major General George H. Brett) were left the jobs of training, procurement, research, etc. As field commander of U. S. armies, George Marshall put Delos Emmons' fighting unit directly under his own command. Farseeing military fliers thought they could see another day, when an Air officer might command an army, might even be Chief of Staff...
Last week George Marshall got down to hard pan. To his office he summoned Brig.General Adna R. Chaffee, who commands the Army's only mechanized brigade; Brig. General Bruce Magruder and Lieut. Colonel Sereno E. Brett, who long have championed tanks in the infantry. Up to now, the mechanized brigade has been a stepchild of the cavalry; tanks have had a secondary place in infantry organization. Result: the U. S. Army has nothing remotely resembling Hitler's armored divisions, up to last week seemed to be moving with dreadful slowness toward getting anything like them...
General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Corps, officiated at a luncheon for oldtime pilots, the air industry and the press in the administration building at Wright Field. He pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had introduced distinguished guests. Among the latter, the men who must build-their nation's wings up to world war strength in two years eyed particularly a chunky Congressman from Akron, Chairman Dow Harter of the aviation subgroup of the House Military Affairs Committee. For he was trying to help...