Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what NACA has done since the doors of the laboratories were last opened to visitors two years ago. Because this year's NACA discoveries will be flying in next year's military airplanes, only U. S. citizens were invited, their cameras were parked at the GHQ Air Force headquarters on the field and they were warned to make no sketches of charts or equipment...
...Force. When that unit was established in 1935 as the Army's combat air force, it was placed outside the Air Corps proper. For a further check rein, its first commanding officer (Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews) was made directly responsible to the Chief of Staff. The GHQ Air Force now takes its place in the Air Corps and its new C. O. (Major General Delos CArleton Emmons) will be responsible to Henry Arnold alone...
...bombers jabbed through coastal defenses and rained white rockets, indicating hits, on interior manufacturing centres, including Norfolk, Suffolk and North London. Territorials, firing anti-aircraft rockets, were unable to prevent "Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down to the attack just as the Air Secretary and his official party were making their inspection. A touch of grim realism was added to the mock war as seven planes crashed, six fliers were killed...
Completely proved at the outset was the fact that GHQ A. F. could assemble a scattered force at unfamiliar airports within a minimum of time. Most spectacular feat in this phase was the transcontinental movement of 945 men. 42 planes, by Brigadier General Delos C. Emmons' First Wing, normally based at March and Hamilton Fields, Calif. Brash, toughly amiable General Emmons, whom many of his comrades look upon as a likely successor to Commanding General Andrews when the latter retires, transformed 16 Douglas bombers into transports, shuttled them and their pilots as many as eight times across the continent...
...tactical purposes, GHQ A. F. last week assumed that its available planes represented 699 ships. By next year it expects to be well toward this total, by 1940 or 1941 to have 1,200. Congress this year has tentatively approved a 1938-39 Air Corps appropriation of $70,556,972, has authorized expenditure of $25,250,000 for new aircraft. Thus by 1941 the force should have 2,149 planes, with the assurance of the $34,000,000 required to replace 340 annually outmoded planes, 130-odd washed out by crashes each year. Last week 13 militantly liberal House Military...