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...spare moments, General Yount liked to refer to his command as "astronomical." The objective was stepped up from 12,000 to 30,000 pilots a year before Pearl Harbor, jumped to 50,000 afterward. Now it is far higher, eventually will probably exceed 100,000 pilots a year-plus bombardiers, navigators and gunners...
...Years from the Front. Always General Yount worked under the oppression of time. He could enlarge his university here, cut off a day or two there, but he could only work within limits. To train a man to fly a combat airplane takes six months; to make him a competent battlefront pilot, two years. The incubation process is as inflexible as the human gestation period...
...General Yount's fledgling pilots had to learn that a cumulonimbus cloud should be regarded as a red traffic light of the air lanes, because it means rough air thunder storms, sometimes hail. But even after they memorized cloud forms until they could recite them in their sleep, they could not learn a proper respect for weather until they stuck their noses into trouble. That took time...
Indefatigable General Yount strives patiently to narrow the time spread between the arrival of the neophyte and the emergence of the airman. He is just short of ubiquitous in his scattered university. In one eight-day period recently he zipped in and out of 16 schools for inspection...
Slow Burner. For 58-year-old Barton Kyle Yount appointment to command of flight-training activities was logical. Since his graduation from West Point in 1907, he has advanced steadily as a military educator...