Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week at Mitchel Field. Long Island, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews considered it necessary to issue the following communique: "I notice from some press reports that there is a tendency to indicate that the Army GHQ Air Force is planning to fight a war by itself. I would like to correct that impression. . . We must realize that in common with the mobilization of the air force in this area, the ground arms of the Army would also be assembling, prepared to take the major role in repelling the actual landing forces. ... I want to ask that...
...several counts. All along the middle and upper Atlantic Seaboard there were soldiers in the sky, playing war in the first full maneuvers staged alone by General Headquarters Air Force. Relations between the air service and the Army at large were better than at any time since 1935, when GHQ A. F. was established as a compromise between those who wanted an entirely separate air force and those who wanted to keep the Army's wings tied securely to the ground command. But the entente was not sufficiently strong to withstand a barrage of one-sided and slightly inaccurate...
Left behind at Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
What dolls are to little girls, war games are to little armies. Last week the little U. S. army of the air-the GHQ Air Force -began a fortnight's play at war under the toughest conditions it could find, in winter-ridden New England. Since there was no "enemy," no "tactical problem," but merely a fight against Nature, the maneuvers themselves proved of little interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills...
Dispatches from Italian GHQ go by Government wireless to Rome, are subject to rigid censorship at both ends. Thus, while the reporters on the Italian side had plenty of news, censorship kept much of it bottled up. Reporters on the Ethiopian side faced an opposite situation. They had no censorship problem, but they also had practically no news. At Addis Ababa most of the reporters are crowded into the barnlike Imperial Hotel. Nights are so cold, sleeping bags are indispensable. Best description of life in Addis Ababa was sent last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Linton...