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...whose careers began in the Navy) goes command of the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. To succeed Major General James E. Chaney, who is watching World War II in Great Britain, 54-year-old Major General Herbert A. Dargue takes command of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field. L.I. (see p. 33). New commander of the Second Air Force (Spokane, Wash.) is 53-year-old Major General Millard F. Harmon...
...sullen summer days, when rain falls and clouds gloom over Long Island, the Army's Mitchel Field is a hive of brown, earthbound pursuit planes. With their tails low, their tapered fuselages and wings tilting toward the grey sky, the P-40s on the grass and the paved tarmac look unnaturally still; they seem always to be straining for release and flight...
...Mitchel's pursuit pilots, the air battles of World War II are very real and very near-nearer than any civilian realizes. For Mitchel Field is not simply a training base for the First Air Force but the defensive center for the Northeastern seaboard...
Blind Men's Bluff? The pursuit groups at Mitchel Field have three pre-war jobs: 1) to break in new pilots on the P-40s; 2) to learn combat flying as it is actually done in World War II; 3) to man new groups as fast as they can be formed, for service in other defense zones and at U.S. bases...
...been too long used to ships which required less careful ground flying. Result: The Army Air Forces' training losses are far fewer than in the war-pressed R.A.F., whose youngsters often go into battle with half the experience which U.S. pilots have already had when they arrive at Mitchel...