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Added headaches for the harried Training Command are: 1) a shortage of flight instructors; 2) a tardy start on a campaign for glider pilots; 3) a growing need of liaison and scout pilots by the ground forces (infantry, artillery, tank outfits...
...Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming astern of two cruisers. The U.S. planes were still ten miles away when the cruisers...
...Wrightstown, Wis., 12-year-old Second Class Scout Gerald Zirbel collected 31,000 lb. of scrap iron in one week, which built up Uncle Sam's muscles as well as his own. So successful was the Boy Scout paper-salvage effort alone (300,000,000 lb.) that WPB had to beg them last week to call a halt to their "magnificent job." The Government asked them to pick up something else for a while-rubber, for instance...
...older Scouts and ex-Scouts who have outgrown dispatch and collection services, there is great demand from recruiting officers. Frank Knox wants the Sea Scouts to sign up for the Navy. Paul McNutt has asked them not to forget the Merchant Marine. Lieut. General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold says that the newest Scout project of Air Scouts (15 years and older) who will receive ground and flight background training is "great news to the Army Air Corps...
...planes and pilots littered the sea. U.S. fighters and bombers, pursuing the rest, found the Japanese main force. U.S. Navy carriers with their fighters, scout bombers and torpedo planes closed in for the kill. More Army bombers rose from Midway. They were not all. Tiny (1½-sq. mi.) Midway's limited airfield space was no limit on the total air strength which the Army could throw into the battle...