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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Henry D. Jay, professor of Military Science and Tactics since September 1939, has received orders, effective December 15, transferring him to Jacksonville, Florida. He will probably be relieved by Colonel Phillips Hayes, noted theorist on Field Artillery tactics. Orders confirming this appointment, however, have not yet been received...
...Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
...R.A.F. men to be trained in the U.S.-150 young Britons-were last week graduated as pilots by four British air schools in the U.S. Thus begins a new stage of the war in which the U.S. makes pilots as well as planes for Britain. On 20 fields,* from Florida to California, over 2,000 other fledgling British airmen are busy learning to fly. Their training is part of a War and Navy Department program that is expected to produce 8,000 new pilots for Britain each year...
...takes 32 weeks; 2) a tighter system devised by the R.A.F., under which U.S. instructors supervised by the British at British air schools in the U.S. whip R.A.F. candidates through in 20 weeks. The R.A.F. plan is now in effect in six British flying schools, located in Oklahoma (2), Florida, Texas, California and Arizona, and last week's graduates all emerged from them. The stiffer course of the Army Air Corps will begin producing graduate pilots for Britain by next January...
Married. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 45, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (The Yearling); and Norton Sanford Baskin, 40, Florida hotelman; she for the second time; in St. Augustine...