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...used to command the Third Armored Division, will take over the newly formed Second Corps; chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet." Henceforth Generals Gillem and Patton will be No. 2 men to Armored Force Chief Major General Jacob Devers. For Georgie Patton, the promotion indicated that he was finally, after various ups & downs, in solid with the Army high command...
Another unit of the greatest fleet of aircraft carriers in the world last week got her commission from the Navy. She was the 20,000-ton Hornet (cost: $31,000,000), whose broad decks can accommodate 80 planes. The addition of the Hornet brought the number of active U.S. carriers up to seven, ranging in tonnage from the 14,500-ton Ranger to the 33,000-ton Lexington and Saratoga, which were started as battle cruisers before their conversion in 1927. Although numerically the British and Japanese are credited with superiority over the U.S. in carriers-England has eight, Japan...
Abuilding are eleven other carriers with a plane capacity equal to or better than the Hornet's. How many the British and Japanese have under construction is not known. But it is known that the Japanese are busy as beavers turning out small carriers, which the Nipponese fancy. Balancing this activity, the U.S. Navy is doing a fast job of converting Maritime Commission cargo-passenger ships into auxiliary carriers. Already in service is the first, U.S.S. Long Island. Four of her sisters, originally completed as cargo ships, will be commissioned as auxiliary carriers within six months. Two more, still...
Carriers are much on Jack Towers' mind nowadays. The Fleets now have six in service, plus a seventh (the Hornet) almost ready for duty, and eleven more on order. By the Navy's accepted standards, six were perhaps enough for the old Fleet organizations. Now the Navy has ceased to think in terms of concentrated battle lines, plans instead for dispersed "task forces"-units of battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers on special missions. This conception requires more carriers than the Navy has in service and in sight. A carrier shortage is therefore one of the biggest holes...
...sleeps a great deal at home and naps constantly and at will on the lot. Stripped of his Hollywood appurtenances and fan-magazine mysticism, this national phenomenon is what he has been for years-an extremely good-natured Montana sportsman. He is daft about guns (his favorite: a .22 Hornet with a German telescope sight). His mind is encyclopedic as to velocities, trajectories. He and "Rocky"-Mrs. Cooper-hunt coyotes and bobcats together in the mountains near Malibu. In 1939 she won the California Women's Skeet Shooting Championship...