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Modest Mr. Lovett would rather have the credit go to such professional airmen as Major General Henry H. Arnold (Deputy Chief of Staff), Lieut. General Delos Emmons (commander of the General Headquarters Air Force, who has long fought for more bomber-power) and Major General George H. Brett (Chief of Air Corps, who was not so foresighted). They and their new civilian boss mutually respect each other, get along very well...
Commanding the destroyer Kelly in battle off the coast of Crete, lean, handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten made a safe escape as the ship rolled over and sank within 70 seconds of a direct hit by a German dive bomber. (The Germans had reported the Kelly officially sunk once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
Also announced last week were arrangements to step up the production of big bombers for the U.S. and Great Britain. A contract with Ford Motor Co. to make four-motored Consolidated bombers was in negotiation. Lockheed, Boeing, Douglas will also expand their capacity. Getting machine tools, materials, labor for this belated bomber program is bound to be difficult. At best, the expected rate of bomber production (500 a month) can hardly be attained before mid-1942. But the need for quantity production of high-load, long-range bombers had at last been recognized, and something was being done...
What made additional aluminum capacity absolutely necessary was a decision to expand big-bomber production. RFC last week set aside $350,000,000 to finance new bomber plants. Unless these plants have aluminum, they cannot make bombers. At the belated best, Mr. Jones's Government-owned aluminum plants may be operating by late 1942 (if they can be rapidly tooled, if sufficient power can be found, if enough bauxite-now mostly imported by Alcoa from Surinam-is at hand...
...only was she reduced to very low speed but she continued making uncontrollable circles in the sea, in which condition she was attacked by our flotillas with two more torpedoes which brought her virtually to a standstill, far from help and far outside the range within which enemy bomber aircraft from the French coast could come upon the scene...