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...less losses, are the present sum of U.S. air power; 145,000 planes are scheduled for production in the next 15 months. Need for replacements will use up much of this new strength. In one theater a typical Flying Fortress is in operation only 231 days, will fly 21 combat missions...
...Combat strength of the A.A.F. is a military secret, carefully kept by A.A.F.'s commander. But some idea of its power can be drawn from Arnold's report of the operations of noncombat branches...
...corners had suddenly become local menaces. Medical and dental supplies had to be shipped to jungles, deserts, frozen tundras. At home a vast system of convalescent and rehabilitation centers had to be set up (TIME, Nov. 8). Emergency medical service also had to be given by air to worldwide combat areas. Since Pearl Harbor the A.A.F. has flown out over 125,000 casualties. A soldier broke his back in Kunming, China. In 82 hours he was resting in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. The Army hospital in Nome burned down. Six days later A.A.F. flew in a complete...
...Sheep bagged eleven Zeros. Within six weeks their kill stood at 58 certain, 22 probables.* Pappy himself shot down five Zeros in a single engagement last September, got four Jap planes on Christmas Eve over the Rabaul hunting ground. His supreme worry now: that he will be retired from combat duty before he makes his mark...
Last week the War Department gave harassed G.I.s better news than a 16-day furlough. The devilish leggings are on the way out. They will soon be replaced by leather combat boots ten inches high. The lower part of the boot is laced; the top part, into which the trouser leg tucks, is neatly buckled. Combat soldiers, long envious of the Germans' comfortable, homely field boot, thought it was about time...