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...defenses it long lacked: the great Army bases at Westover Field (Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Manchester, N.H., an enlarged naval air establishment at Squantum in Boston Harbor. And just below New England's border, on Long Island, were two more bastions of defense: the Army's Mitchel Field, the Navy's new air base at Floyd Bennett Field...
Captain Anderson put away three points for the Crimson, Wally Fenn accounted for another, while Ieradi and Bennedict hit the nets for the remaining four. High scorer for Tufts was Mitchel who tallied all three points for the losers...
PRIVATE WILLIAM HEIMER Mitchel Field, Long Island...
...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...
...naval planes collided. Six men died. At Opa Locka, Fla., a naval training plane fell out of control, the pilot's parachute did not open, and he was killed. An Army Air Corps lieutenant crashed, fatally, in the Panama Canal Zone. An Army fighter crashed near Mitchel Field, L. I., another Army plane had a forced landing near Buffalo. The pilots of both planes survived...