Word: kepner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks after Pearl Harbor, Aircraft Warning Service volunteers were plentiful. When no Japs bombed the West Coast, interest ebbed, many plane spotters dropped out. A collapse in the volunteer system would have meant that 150,000 soldiers would have had to be turned into spotters. Brigadier General William E. Kepner, head of the Fourth Fighter Command, put the problem up to the four networks...