Word: interceptor
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...Lightning aircraft pictured on p. 29 of your May 17 issue will not, as captioned, "Shuttle Steel to Kiska" or anywhere else. ... Its lack of armament and the odd-shaped "holes" in the hood door and fuselage stamp it unmistakably as something other than the P-38 interceptor pursuit or fighter bomber...
Because of the oft mentioned manpower shortage, the Interceptor Command has begun a drive among Harvard undergraduates through Phillips Brooks House to round up a number of men to work in their office taking calls from air raid spotters...
...history. The Jap was casting a two-pronged offensive at Alaska and at Midway. Admiral Ernest Joseph King (COMINCH) chose to throw his biggest defensive punch toward Midway, and his carrier-based airmen spearheaded the victory in one of the decisive battles of history. In the Aleutians, the "PBY Interceptor Command" and a handful of flyers had to fight with what was on hand...
...Army has already indicated that such civilian defense work as that in the interceptor command would be considered one of the better forms of premilitary training, and that such work would be extremely valuable to prospective members of the armed forces...
Characterized by General Hugh Drum, commander of the Second Army, as "the most important work that a civilian can do" the work will release soldiers who are badly needed in other vital work. Over 100 Harvard students and a great number of faculty have already volunteered for the interceptor jobs, and fifty Radcliffe girls are also enrolled...