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Congress and the Administration were still locked in mortal combat on the inflation front...
...without planes." For a while he almost had to fight without them anyway: in the summer and fall of 1942 his bomber force sometimes averaged five B-25s, his fighter force was down to 20 P-40s, and for months he never had more than 80 planes fit for combat...
...perfect interception of Jap forces. With more bombers and fighters now, he concentrates on overall tactics, shifting his planes in a pattern as intricate as a ballet. The Japanese, hitting back from their Formosa, Hankow, Canton and Indo-China bases, have learned much from their two years of combat with Chennault...
...pack the experience of 15. Using a fake name and wearing a phony uniform, he tasted basic training in Mississippi, sampled college training in Missouri, took classification tests in California. He wound up his training when the nose of his companions' ship "pointed south-for combat...
Observers of Mexican military maneuvers had just seen some 15,000 troops go through their paces with modern weapons (some made in Mexico, some supplied by the U.S.), a small air force (with more trainers than combat craft on view), motorized infantry and cavalry battalions. The troops were disciplined and tidy in olive drab, with French-style tin hats or square, peaked fatigue caps with back-flaps reminiscent of France's Foreign Legion...