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...Army last week received a few well-chosen hard words from what is practically its own house organ. The weekly Army and Navy Register, potent service publication, complained: "Staff officers all too often are lacking in concrete knowledge of what troop duty really is, and they issue impractical orders because they do not know what it takes to get things done." Naming no names, the Register cited instances...
...hour of night flying and a little instrument flying. But there can be no practice in what glider pilots dread, even the most experienced -bad weather. For there is no substitute for a motor in escaping a storm. A student's last week of practice is devoted to troop carriers...
...order, even being delivered. Certainly the Army is starting a big campaign for glider recruits.* But the most that Colonel David M. Schlatter, the top Army glider man, would say: the Army is buying nine-seat gliders for transition training between the three-seaters and the larger troop carriers...
...plane could drop gliders at Cleveland, St. Louis and Omaha, and still arrive in Los Angeles with gliders in tow, picked up at Amarillo and Salt Lake City. Troop carriers could be dropped off behind the front lines with full equipment, including tanks, could be picked up and reloaded at home base without the tow plane's ever touching ground...
These are but a small sample of the jobs now being done by airline-operated cargo planes working with the newly formed Army Air Service Command. When the Army last month bought outright almost half the 324-plane U.S. airline fleet, it kept 63 planes to use as troop transports. The Army then leased 96 remaining planes back to the airlines, gave them the job of carrying every ounce of Army air freight in the Western Hemisphere. The Ferry Command flies most of the Army's freight going to Africa, Australia, other far-off places...