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Wrote angry Sascha: "Air power is not a matter of numbers, but of proper strategy, tactics, psychological attitudes toward the new domain of conflict. . . ." The root of his criticism is that many Army, Navy and civilian officials now directing the U.S. air program still fail to grasp the fabulous possibilities of global air power...
Thus a loud, brash, and angry voice cried this week to the U.S. people. The voice belonged to Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky, who won all available decorations, and lost his right leg when he flew for his native Russia in World War I (see cut). Sascha de Seversky is now a columnist and author who designed and manufactured military aircraft in the U.S. before he turned to writing. Into a new book, Victory Through Air Power (Simon & Schuster; $2.50), he has crammed much knowledge, enthusiasm, bitterness, and a limitless faith in the airplane. The result is a blast...
...gets air power on the Seversky scale, it will have bombers and multi-engined fighters able to fly 15,000 and even 25,000 miles, demolish any city on the globe, then return to their U.S. bases without refueling. And by the same token, says Sascha de Seversky, U.S. enemies will have fleets capable of visiting the same destruction on the U.S. He thinks that fleets of such planes can just about take over the main jobs of war, leaving only incidental mopping-up to ground armies and surface navies...
...would now- in 1942 -have great fleets of such bombers, able to assault Japan from Alaskan bases, if U.S. officialdom had been properly awake. But he fails to concede that the U.S. is now going into quantity production of bombers able to do many of the things which Sascha and the citizenry want done...
Built on Long Island, the Thunderbolt is a lineal descendant of "Sascha" Seversky's P35 pursuit ship of 1937. Before the big rush of U.S. rearmament, Seversky's stockholders kicked out their mercurial president, thoroughly reorganized the company. But when the heat was really put on by the U.S. Army Air Forces last May, Republic Aviation Corp. (the new name) decided that it needed a big-league production man at its controls...