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...Forcemen agree that the only reason there are not more airmen on the Army general staff today is that General "Hap" Arnold has not been able to release enough starred officers from his busy air forces. Marshall's fixed policy is to make the ratio of top air general officers and ground officers equal...
...Forcemen were satisfied with the job the outfit had done. Beyond its combat deeds, the inspiration it had given to other outfits could not be measured. But fighting men had a word to explain the outfit's success. The word was "guts...
Next day the bombers returned, found German pontoon bridges mending some of the gaps, smoke pots placed for protection. Wind waved the smoke aside. At the end of 72 hours, 28 bridges (rail and pontoon) were out. Said Uncle Joe, one of the war's great tactical air-forcemen: "This is an outstanding feat in the history of aerial warfare...
This was not Tunisia, but Fort Knox, Ky. Raiders were the Nazi Platoon-30 German-speaking, noncommissioned Armored Forcemen who prey on trainees out on long marches and overnight maneuvers. Faces blackened, signaling among themselves by owl hoots, the raiders fire blanks, use whistle bombs. The platoon averages five day or night raids a week. It specializes in mess sergeants (thereby canceling dinner) and tired stragglers...
...started the Army & Navy section Alexander has personally visited close to a hundred Army and Navy posts, ranging all the way from Pearl Harbor to Britain, where he spent two months last fall, hopping from airfield to airfield, bunking with the American flyers, renewing his acquaintance with Air Forcemen like Generals Doolittle, Eaker and Spaatz...