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America's 3,258 women pilots last week got an invitation to spread their wings for Britain. In Manhattan famed Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, who flew a bomber to Britain last June, announced that she was setting out on a tour of ten U.S. cities to recruit female flyers for the British Air Transport Auxiliary. The project was blessed by CAA and the War Department, also by Jacqueline's great & good friends, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt...
Germans who were inclined to criticize the Nazi campaign in Russia had been reminded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that it was useless to rebel against a dive-bomber. Most Berliners seemed heavily apathetic to what was called "the new type of winter warfare in Russia," to Hitler's declaration of war against the U.S., to Japan's Far Eastern successes...
...this is not enough. What Australia needs more than potentials is the ready-made stuff. She could do with the two Spitfire squadrons, with the Wellington and Hampden bomber squadrons, all Australian manned, that are squatting in England. She could do more with the fleets of bombers and fighters, the heavy equipment, the light and medium tanks, trucks, and millions of tons of fuel which America could supply...
...same; the old gang wasn't there and every girl Vag met knew some neat guy fighting in the Pacific, which made him feel sharply his own unheroic role. Maybe he ought to join the air corps right away and get sent to the Philippines. "Vag send Jap bomber down in flames"; that would look great in a headline. But that wouldn't do President Conant and some Deans whose names he couldn't remember had said that students should stay at their books and preserve freedom of thought and the academic tradition and all that...
...this, $35,000,000 is for a plane unique in U.S. aviation history-the all-plywood bomber trainer AT-10. The AT-10 uses very little scarce aluminum or steel and can be turned out much faster than metal craft. Almost ready for full-scale production, Beech has subcontracted 30-40% of his plywood ship to companies like American Seating Co. (school and theater seats), Reed Roller Bit Co. (oil-well drills), Kansas City woodworking outfits...