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...Navy moved in on Brewster Aeronautical Corp. last week, seized Brewster's two plants in Long Island City (where it manufactures dive-bomber parts), its big, new, final assembly plant in Johnsville, Pa. (where it is supposed to be zipping out finished planes) and its plant at Newark Airport (where it makes wingtip floats and other gear for Consolidated Catalina Flying Boats). Brewster was the fifth U.S. firm to be seized by the Government since war began in Europe...
Blimps as convoying weapons are uniquely fitted for anti-submarine work off the U.S. coasts, where they have no fear of air attack. The British have used one kind of lighter-than-air protection in barrage balloons trailed behind ships to make dive-bombing and mast-level bombing hazardous...
...evening while I was listening to THE MARCH OF TIME. One of the episodes purported to depict an incident in the front lines here in Bataan. There was a sound effect of firing and one of the characters said: "Here they come!" Just at that minute a flight of dive-bombers opened up on an airfield and our AAs opened up on them. The noise of that little brush completely drowned the sound effects on the radio. There was a gang around listening to the program and we were all very much amused at the coincidence...
This is a first-person story of the U.S. bomber raids on the Philippines, as told to TIME'S correspondent Melville Jacoby in Australia by Lieut. James Byington MacAfee of Charlotte, N.C., a dive-bomber pilot who had been flown out from Bataan because there were no planes for him to fly there and who had begged to be allowed to go back on the air raid with General Royce. His story begins with the bombers' arrival at the secret U.S. field in the Philippines...
...single exercise, and they will work for perfection of coordination in the squad, for perfect teamwork between battalions and regiments. Unlike the 1941 exercises, this year's "little maneuvers" will have plenty of airplanes, plenty of tanks. Soldiers and officers will learn how to work up behind dive-bombers, how to cooperate with reconnaissance aviation, how to move in swiftly behind tanks. and how to plow ahead to take objectives that tanks cannot take...