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...first pony has arrived and is already distributed to the front and to the west, with combat troops getting the heaviest share. Reception enthusiastic all the way from the top down...
...TIME is practically my only contact with the outside world," wrote Corporal J. I. D. . . . "It is the most sought-after publication in the combat zones," observed Captain D. L. J. of the Marines . . . and "TIME in this area is worth its weight in gold," Lieutenant (j.g.) A. N. H. of the Navy told us-"the Executive says it's fine for morale and sends a heartfelt vote of thanks...
...Japs use a vast aerial stagger system to guard their empire and train air crews for combat. Freshman flyers go to central China to bomb relatively undefended towns. Then they move by easy stages to Formosa for additional training. In the Canton-Hong Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle with the Fourteenth and also with R.A.F. and U.S. airmen based in India. Last stop for those still alive is the Southwest Pacific, where the Japs concentrate their best...
...fact. To relieve sorely strained U.S. crews and to make up for the lack of sufficient replacements from the U.S., the Fourteenth is absorbing competent Chinese pilots and crews. The General had personally trained some of them. Said he: "I defy the Japs to tell Chinese from Americans in combat...
While U.S. and British newsmen were roundly criticizing U.S. military aircraft in the first eight months after Pearl Harbor (on the basis of their spotty combat showing) most U.S. air soldiers had a stock and sour reply: "Wait and see." Only constitutionally cheerful "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Air Forces, had much good to say about U.S. warplanes in public. This week he had his inning...