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...more. Clashes on high policy and procedure often enliven staff conferences, cause many a private cussing bee. U.S. pilots and crews, training with British units, find unaccustomed formalities and shibboleths in R.A.F. mess life, and sometimes they offend British sensibilities. At every stage of air operation, from training to combat, the R.A.F. and the Army Air Forces think and act differently. Now, within the tight confines of Britain, all these differences must be fitted into one operational pattern...
...across the British countryside, this official fellowship shows in many ways: the close integration of U.S. and British air staffs; the rapid transfer of R.A.F. airdromes, supply and maintenance depots to the growing U.S. forces; young U.S. pilots, fresh out of school and untried in battle, getting combat experience in British planes with British squadrons; U.S. tractors and excavators, operated by U.S. civilian laborers and Army engineers, clawing up the green lawns, parks and fields of many an old British estate, building airdromes for the U.S. forces...
...Tribune, the tabloid News plays the news straight-except for queer capers in some "feature" stories. Having long ago graduated from reliance on a cheesecake-and-scandal diet, it now commands respect from its contemporaries for its enterprise and alertness. Equally respected is Captain Patterson, who distinguished himself in combat in World War I, has espoused many a liberal cause. But his pre-Pearl Harbor isolationism and editorial changes of pace on the conduct of the war have prompted many to tar him with the same brush as Colonel McCormick...
...Years from the Front. Always General Yount worked under the oppression of time. He could enlarge his university here, cut off a day or two there, but he could only work within limits. To train a man to fly a combat airplane takes six months; to make him a competent battlefront pilot, two years. The incubation process is as inflexible as the human gestation period...
...need of Aviation officers from the lowest squadron commander to the highest commanding general for vital facts concerning status of aircraft, personnel, operating, and supply. The uniform reporting system being thought statistical officers here has already been tested successfully in the field and has shown its value for combat organization...