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...Thunderbird Field, near Phoenix, Ariz., where U.S. student flyers are now stationed, arrived 50 Chinese, prospective airmen. Within the next few months they will be followed by several hundred others...
...have been trained in a hodgepodge of Chinese, Russian and U.S. methods. In U.S. air schools, under Army-supervised private instructors, they will be taught to handle U.S. Lend-Lease bombers and fighters in the manner to which the planes have been accustomed. Anticipated output of Chinese airmen at Thunderbird, which is operated by Southwest Airways, Inc.: 200 Chinese trainees every 20 weeks...
...Chinese students at Thunderbird last week were traditionally inscrutable. Mum on all matters, they admitted only that they were "velly happy...
From now on, Thunderbird will turn out a class every five weeks. But the U.S. Army Air Corps loved this fuss & feathers. It was tophole publicity for the Army's flying-cadet training program...
...Arizona desert's edge, in a broad valley twelve miles northwest of Phoenix, there were high jinks one day last week. Sprung up from the cactus in less than five months under the watering of Hollywood money. Southwest Airways' new Thunderbird Field-acting as one of 48 kindergartens for Army Airmen-was graduating its first class. Hollywood starlets trailed inspecting officers down ranks of 102 grey-clad cadets, who had a hard time keeping eyes front...