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...their fitness for particular tasks-and not, as in the past, mainly by rank, seniority and the relative prestige of the Army's branches. For example: in Alaska, where the air forces will be more important than any others, an airman will command all Army units. In Newfoundland, the command of all Army forces has already been given to an airman (Brigadier General Henry W. Harms...
...Secretary of the Navy Knox announced that two naval air bases (on sites leased from Great Britain) will soon be commissioned: at Bermuda on July 1, at Newfoundland on July 15. The choices of officers to command these bases gave a hint of the kind of naval air forces likely to be stationed there. For Newfoundland, the Navy chose a long-range patrol officer, Commander Gail Morgan, who now commands a unit (Patrol Wing I) of big flying boats. Along with their flying watchmen, these planes can also carry bombs or torpedoes for attacking enemy ships. Assigned to Bermuda...
...Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...
...Americas. "In the United States the sphere of influence would be Canada, Central and South America, Newfoundland and Greenland, with the islands in regional waters, but there would be an undertaking on America's part not to form a hegemony in South America against the Axis. Indeed, there would be required the fullest freedom and equality of opportunity for Germany and its allies...
...occupied by the Axis powers." Whether this is founded or unfounded, the American public gets a look at the same sort of balloon they saw during the Neutrality Act discussion, when he announced to the papers that he had sighted a submarine off the coast of Newfoundland...