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...first blow of the attack was driven home by the R. A. F. under command of Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, who got the second highest bag of any British flier in World War I (60 planes) and about the most decorations. Everything the R. A. F. could get off the ground went out-from slick new Hurricanes recently brought East, to heavy old Glosters. vibrating like aerial pianos. Just as the Germans did on May 10 in the Low Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right...
Died. Johan Egbert Frederik de Kok, 58, general managing director of Royal Dutch Co. (successor to the late, great Henri Deterding), able amateur flier; of heart disease; at The Hague...
...before, Infantryman Marshall had given Flier Emmons a good idea of the force he was to command. Reorganizing the Air Corps on a wartime basis, he announced that the four Air Corps wings in the continental U. S. (now commanded by brigadiers) would be expanded to 17 as fast as pilots and planes were ready. Army airmen hoped that the 12,800 fighting craft needed would be ready before the promised delivery date (late in 1942), set out to expand the Air Corps's enlisted strength from 45,000 to 163,000. They did not need to worry about...
...command was said to be General Rino Corso Fougier. Named to be active squadron leader was hard-boiled Ettore Muti, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, a flier of proved ability with a reputation for courage. (He is credited with leading long-range raids on Haifa and, last fortnight, on the Bahrein Islands.) The Corso-Muti squadron was reported attached to the German air fleet commanded by Nazi General Albert Kesselring-but still no Italian planes or pilots were reported over Great Britain by R. A. F., which awaited them with cold-steel curiosity...
...Santa Monica, Calif., 21-year-old, 200-pound George Temple, Shirley's big brother, signed up for four years with the Marines, hoped to become a captain and a flier...