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...first birthday of the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force in China, its commander, Major General Claire Chennault, said: "During the next year you men will fly over Japan itself many times...
Early this year White lived for months with General Claire Chennault's bomber pilots-flew with them on mission after bombing mission all over South China. In fact, he went along on so many of those raids that our worried Editor had to cable him please just to go on the most important ones-and save his hide for TIME'S readers...
...voice came from the sound track, has busied himself with air tactics since the early '30s, with a combination of studious analysis and flying virtuosity rarely found in fighter pilots. Result of this preoccupation aloft and on the ground is that today Navy fighters call Thach "the Navy Chennault" and universally use his tactics. They know they are good; Thach himself proved them in battle...
...Most famous mascot in Chennault's China air force is a poodle, Major, born three months ago in a South American base. He now has 20 hours in P-40s (where he rides behind the pilot), knows how to breathe oxygen...
...Forces headquarters for combat expertness is a postgraduate school. Its name: the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics, at Orlando. There air men learn such new developments as Chennault's winning mass-fighter tactics; the deadly skip-bombing developed by the late Major William G. Benn of MacArthur's Air Force; the countless tricks of navigation, gunnery and high-altitude bombing developed the hard way by Ira Eaker's Flying Fortressmen and Liberator crews over France and Germany...