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Under him three men will steer the Army of the future : Air Force - Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap" for happy) Arnold, white-thatched, genial, 55, veteran flyer, ex-juvenile fiction writer; Ground Force -slender, studious Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, 58; Supply -soft-spoken, hard-driving Major General (likely soon to be Lieut. General) Brehon Somervell...
Then, in ships and barges, the Jap troops came. They were not quite ready for Java proper. They swarmed into Timor, where insufficient Dutch and Australian troops had moved in with the slender garrison in Portugal's half of the island. They pushed into Bali's dozing harbors, on to the palm-fringed shores...
Many observers said they were just as concerned over Bingham's precarious ascent on the ladder as Warmerdam's jump to the same height on only a slender pole. But Bingham's statement, "it was a good big quarter of an inch over 15:7 inches constituted the final record-making verdict...
...little loafing. At Rangoon, on the ocean entry to the Burma Road, at Kunming, on its inner terminus, at many an airdrome between, A.V.G.'s100-odd U.S. pilots brightened last week's dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like a fleet of rowboats attacking the Spanish Armada...
...year, most of which went in income taxes and upkeep of the vast medieval pile of Lambeth Palace which the Nazis blitzed last year. In his resignation speech the Archbishop referred to his "sudden withdrawal to some obscure place ... to face ... the restraints and inconveniences of very slender means." Leftist papers tartly said they thought his ?1,500 pension was more than that...