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...every three tanks and combat planes manufactured in the U.S. in 1942 has been shipped to United Nations allies, either under Lend-Lease or through foreign purchases...
...York Times's military commentator Hanson Baldwin suggested last month that military doctors could be stretched further by picking up surgical teams from nonfighting garrisons where they have little to do, rushing them by plane as needed to handle wounded in combat zones...
...Force unit down to the farthest squadron. By instituting a management-control system, General Arnold hopes to up those profits in terms of damage to the enemy and conservation of U.S. men and equipment. Each Stat officer records and analyzes weekly the status of: 1) planes (ready for combat, repairable, out of action); 2) personnel (number and types of training, casualties, replacement needs); 3) operations (type of mission, time, weather, degree of success, cost in men and equipment...
Died. Rosalinde Maclardy, Lady Tedder, wife of Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander of the R.A.F. in the Middle East; in an air crash near Cairo. The Marshal's elder son, Arthur, of the R.A.F., was killed in aerial combat over France...
Next morning the convoy reached the vicinity of Lae, where more Zeros undertook to protect it. Then George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...