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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked" the course of the bombers with astounding accuracy. Indeed, Army airmen were shaken by the knowledge that even at great heights, their craft were seen or heard...
...following opinion by Rear Admiral G.J. Rowcliff, Commander Cruisers, Scouting Force, of the U.S. Fleet, got into the press last week: "Neither nakedness nor underwear are authorized Navy outer uniforms at present. The sun's age and man's antiquity being what they are, sunbathing has been practised for some time in the past without a policy. However, the price of clothing, the progress of medical thermo and radio technique, and the existing inclination of mankind toward nakedness and idleness may require the establishment of a policy. Sunbathing, by its very nature, seems to eliminate clothing, at least...
...journalists and radiomen, this looked like complete success for General Gardner's wonderful net. Publicity was in charge of artillery officers who did not go out of their way to discourage this impression, feeling with the Army at large that the Air Corps has got altogether too many bouquets in recent years. Resentful airmen, aware that they were ordered to fly predetermined courses under conditions which would not obtain in war time, boiled out of their ships with profane explanations. Finally bald, patient General Gardner had to caution newsmen: "Nobody is trying to win a war here...
...Corps got some comfort from the biggest "blackout" yet staged by the U.S. Army. In part of the defense sector, 66 towns were darkened to find out: whether voluntary cooperation by citizens could achieve a blackout efficient enough to baffle night bombers. Answer: No. Inability to darken scattered rural homes and keep cars off highways* in so large an area defeated the blackout. Bombers found their way with ease, theoretically wrecked Fort Bragg...
...Tokyo flashed that the Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing the Russians. It was mainly Japanese forces released from their "watch in the North" who drove into South China this week...