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...McNarney warn that the fight ahead will be hard and bloody; Major General George V. Strong, Assistant Chief of Military Intelligence, report that German air strength was greater than in 1939, that continued bombings had not broken German morale, and that Hitler had almost three times as many field combat divisions as in the autumn of 1939. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson keynoted...
...Japan. Far ahead, Chinese combat troops under U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner ranged through the jungles, driving back Jap patrols. As the road advanced further into enemy-held territory security guards had to be mounted over the laboring Hairy Ears, who kept their own guns constantly at hand...
...year ago, alarmed by widespread and contradictory criticism of U.S. combat planes and its effect on morale, OWI made a survey, published a report. Its warning: no plane can be found good, bad or indifferent until it has met its final test-battle. Its "verdict: although U.S. air power had been caught short of many necessaries (e.g., radio detectors, a system of bases), the U.S. combat .planes that had jought up to the time of the report had already been proven superior to the enemy's, on average. This week TIME updates OWI's report...
...development of U.S. combat aircraft, Emden had made history. There, for the first time U.S. four-motored bombers showed they were capable of something more than their deadly accurate high-altitude bombing. Without stop in production the big fellows had been made more versatile, could carry heavier bombloads at lower altitudes for the area-bombing for which British bombers are famed...
...Numbers Racket." In this demonstration in combat, the Army Air Forces was quick to see a chance to cut down the complexity of its aircraft equipment, which runs into scores of types with overlapping tactical functions. This airmen call "the numbers racket...