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...Axis broadcasters reported, with a great air of knowledge, that U.S. combat forces were massing in western Africa (see map): in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon. If so, then the U.S., for all military purposes, had taken over the great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...
...watched U.S. Navy flyers set the Jap carrier Ryuzyo afire off the Solomon Islands. His own bomber slipped a torpedo into the ship from less than 800 yards, survived some stubborn Jap Zeros, got home. Singer figured he was lucky to get back alive. But it made a swell combat story...
...plain office in the Munitions Building come reports of military operations in all theaters of combat. Every day he discusses the progress of the war with his chief and fellow V.M.I, alumnus, General George Catlett Marshall. About three times a week he talks over grand strategy with Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's war effort coordinator. (General Eisenhower used to confer secretly with the President himself.) It is up to General Handy and his Division to make plans for U.S. moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army...
...means of figures so secret they were torn up in small bits before the Senators left the committee room, the Army showed that six Axis planes are shot down to each U.S. plane in combat. (If this success is owing to pilot excellence rather than plane capabilities, that is a good argument for not sending U.S. pilots out in flying coffins like the Jap Zeros. If U.S. planes were stripped of armor, puncture-proof tanks and parachutes to make them lighter-hence more maneuverable, and able to fight at higher altitudes-pilot loss, like the Japs', would be terrific...
Based on a two-week investigation of Army Air Force combat equipment, the report said American bombers and fighters ran up a 75 to 15 score on the enemy during August, a record of only one loss to every seven planes destroyed...