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...Navy over the value of the long-range bomber if war should come, the Air Force holds that today's bomber has an advantage over the fighter aircraft. Last week the man who has charge of developing the Air Force's planes and weapons, General Joseph T. McNarney, Chief of the Air Materiel Command, backed his colleagues' views, but he added a note of caution. In the 1930s, he recalled in an interview, airmen had the same notion, but the supposedly invulnerable bombers got badly shot up by fighters early in World...
...contest between bomber and fighter is almost as old as air warfare, and the balance has never stayed in the same position for long. A good bomber may get superiority, but it has never held it; fighter designers, occasionally behind in development, have always caught up. General McNarney thinks that the great 6-36, the Air Force's heavy bomber, can now cope with fighters and can hold its advantage for a while. Though much slower (about 400 m.p.h. in emergencies) than fighters, the 6-36 flies at an altitude where jet engines lose much of their power. Further...
...matter of months, he announced, he hoped to have the top brass of the three services and 12,000 underlings relocated in new, chummy quarters in the Pentagon, a shift once estimated as a two-to three-year job. He ordered the Air Force's General Joseph T. McNarney to shake down the hundreds of duplicating and overlapping service boards and agencies. Four days later Johnson wiped out nine service boards as unnecessary. He made it plain that he would stand for "no vying between the services for headlines...
...delegation, headed by Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, submitted its ideas, along with those of France and Britain, in a report to the Council...
...Joseph T. McNarney. 5. Walter Bedell Smith...