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...organization and distribution of fighting units to the A.E.F. that will jump off when the second front is launched. The big emphasis now had to be on troops that pave the way for a drive: Quartermaster, Engineer and Signal Corps outfits, housekeeping units for the Air Forces. Some combat units were on hand. But the bulk of the A.E.F.'s striking power would come later...
...training his combat crews and starting tactical cooperation with the R.A.F., General Spaatz could leave details to his bomber commander, husky, seasoned, 46-year-old Major General Ira Eaker and to his fighter commander, whose name has not yet been announced. Real U.S. participation in big-scale bombing would have to wait until their organization work was completed and plenty of equipment was on hand...
...direct an individual almost unerringly to the right vocation. Some of their deductions: too much self-control (i.e., overconservatism) is as bad as too little; a good foreman must be cheerful, self-controlled, decisive; a good salesman is usually selfish and stubborn; tough guys make the best welders and combat flyers; a wide variety of types are successful as riveters; introverts are happier on assembly lines than extroverts...
...colleges possess the facilities necessary to train the mass of experts needed on all fronts, but after six months there are still no national directives. Few people know which jobs are most vital and who can be spared for them. No attempt is being made to release potential combat power by supplying a stream of the physically unfit for civilian tasks. The possibility of preparing women to take over in the nation's offices and laboratories has scarcely been investigated. Individual colleges have spurred on ahead of the rest, but what is needed is not a "Yale plan...
...Army had its own pigeon-sized air-cargo system. In 1941 it carted 4,000 tons of airplane parts to & from tactical fields and its depots. But in the U.S. long-range air freighting was an uncharted stratum, even after the Army established a ferry service to deliver combat planes abroad. As late as last autumn only a minuscule 4% of the Army's planes consisted of troop and cargo carriers. The Navy was tardier...