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Lord Louis' command embraces a conglomerate collection of British, Indian, Burmese, Chinese and American soldiers, the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy, the R.A.F., the I.A.F., the U.S. Tenth Air Force and presumably the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force. His first job was to coordinate their functions, curb jealousies, instill discipline, create unity...
...battle, the Fourteenth Air Force is a handful of bold-eyed young men, haunted by the necessity of economy in the use of their too-few aircraft, inspired by the genius and unerring tactical wisdom of Major General Claire Lee Chennault. On the ground it is a strange compound of unselfish human labor: patient Chinese who work miracles by numbers and sweat where machines are inadequate or just not available; windburned Americans in dusty coveralls who whoop and holler as they work, spend their off hours talking about home...
...last week, as the Fourteenth announced a routine score-33 Jap planes destroyed, 14 probables, two U.S. fighters lost in eight days-visitors to the China theater saw impressive progress from this most unusual of the war's fighting forces. No war had been won. The Jap still bombed outlying fields. Occasionally he punched at main bases and pocketed his losses. The best the Fourteenth could still do was to contain...
Said quiet Sergeant Benko, grey-haired at 32: "I never worked that turret so fast before." His quick shooting brought his total score to 16 Jap planes, three more than Colonel Bruce Holloway's, ranking ace of the Fourteenth Air Force. It also made him top gun among all aerial gunners in the A.A.F...
...Japs have a new fighter, more formidable than the Zeros.* Maine's Senator Ralph 0. Brewster (see p. 13) declared last week that the ratio of U.S. air victories has begun to drop, that Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force flyers in China were so surprised by their first brush with Japan's new fighter that they lost five out of seven bombers...