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...governmental red tape. What he cannot cut, he blandly ignores. When the Army tried to get rumman to camouflage his plants, he objected, said it was unnecessary and would interfere with production. When the Army insisted, Grumman said: "From the-air, we find the plant by flying over to Mitchel Field and taking our directions from the runways there. Maybe you ought to camouflage them first." The Army quit bothering him. The Navy lets Grumman do things much as he wants, sure they will be all right. Said Vice Admiral John McCain : "The name Grumman on a plane...
...science and tactics. The only civilian job he ever had was running an elevator to finance his college social activities. After graduating from the Army's flying school at Kelly Field, big (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lb.) blue-eyed Richard Sanders was first among 125 candidates at Mitchel Field, fourth in the whole U.S., in competitive examinations for Regular Army commissions. He was a Liberator pilot in 1942, helping chew up Rommel's supply lines in North Africa. In the U.S. Ninth Air Force Dick Sanders rose to be bomber-command chief of staff, later a group...
Tickets for the Naval Training Schools personnel are obtainable at the various units' welfare offices. See' Lt. Nixon (Supply), Lt. Whelton (V-12 and NROTC), Lt. O'Neill (Communications), Lt. (jg) Gaertner (WAVES), and Lt. (jg) Mitchel (Radar...
...Mostly he carries people and supplies, just as he once carried a full load of medicines to earthquake victims in Chile. That was five years ago last month. Grandpappy's pilot then was burly Major Caleb V. Haynes, now a Brigadier General heading the First Bomber Command at Mitchel Field, New York, onetime boss of all of Chennault's bombers in China...
...Major General Ralph Royce left his First Air Force (headquarters Mitchel Field, L.I.) for foreign duty. Airmen guessed he was headed for Cairo to take over the Ninth, relieving Major General Lewis H. Brereton. Whatever his detail, airmen approved the choice...