Word: interceptor
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...capital was spared air attack for a full day, apparently because of the good work of interceptor squadrons which met the Japanese about 40 miles north of Manila. But during the first night the Japanese swept in, set fire to gasoline dumps beside Nichols Field, bombed the fort of Corregidor (but not seriously), socked naval drydocks and repair shops. The Japanese aim was reported to be un canny: few non-military buildings were...
Further specifications, plain to airmen, Greek to civilians: P-40 (Curtiss pursuit), a girl who is neat, streamlined, trim; P-38 (Lockheed's swift, highflying, two-engined interceptor that climbs so fast pilots are apt to get the bends), similar but dangerous for the inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
...overall operation (and with a view to independent action), the air arm is divided into Air Forces, four for the continental U.S., three others for the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Philippines. Included in each Air Force is an Interceptor Command (high-speed pursuit planes), plus bombers and reconnaissance organizations. The new Air Support Commands will be part of the four Air Forces in the continental U.S., whose areas are laid out to cover the same areas as the four field armies...
Mission of the bombers is to seek out the air invader at sea or in bases he may have seized, near the Western Hemisphere. The interceptor's job is like that of Britain's Fighter Command: to take the air when raids threaten, knock the enemy's bombers out of the skies. Last week, having assigned four flying major generals to command the Air Forces (Northeast, James E. Chancy; Northwest, John F. Curry; Southeast, Barton K. Yount; Southwest, Jacob E. Fickel), the Army announced its interceptor commanders: four brigadier generals-all slim and wiry, as pursuit pilots...
...Long Island's Mitchel Field, to the First Interceptor Command, went big-game-hunting John C. McDonnell. To Fort George Wright, near Spokane, Wash., went the Second Air Force's interceptor commander, long-faced, leathery Carlyle H. Wash, just returned from a month's study of Britain's air defenses. Thin-haired, scholarly Walter H. Frank took charge of the Third Command at Tampa, Fla. The Fourth went to bald, affable Millard F. Harmon, an Army pilot since...