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...argues that the men who made the air mistakes have no business ruling the U.S. air in 1942. From the recent past, he hauls many a U.S. mistake to prove his point. He declares that U.S. pursuit planes were scandalously lacking in power, arma ment, range and over-all combat efficiency when World War II began, that many models now in production are already out-of-date. Says Sascha: "It is about time we stopped bragging. ... If we continue to live in a fool's paradise of self-congratulation and far-fetched alibis, there is nothing ahead...
From Camp Blanding, Fla. to Fort Lewis, Wash, the U.S. Army plugged at battle training. The emphasis was on operations of the battalion Majors, younger and slimmer than the Army had seen since World War I, led their outfits far into the field to march and dig in combat exercises. The Army, after the biggest field maneuver ever, in 1941, was preparing for field exercises...
...Combat is like sitting here. Your mission is over in a hurry. You are a supertarget for only a short time, and if death comes it will be in a hurry. The preflight periods are the only time that can be bad, and the only thing to do then is to think of something else...
...recent combat, an untried youngster missed one Jap Zero after another. "Look, Joe," said Sergeant Silva, "you're not leading them enough, and your shots are going behind them." Silva grabbed the gun and squinted from the Flying Fortress turret. Four Zeros flashed by. Three of them, perhaps the fourth fell apart under Silva's fire. "See, Joe?" Silva yelled. During the same fracas, the pilot inquired over the Fortress interphone: "Are you firing at the enemy?" Sergeant Silva replied: "Sir, I've already shot down two, goddamit...
...Battle of India. They did not win the Bay last week. But they inflicted terrible naval losses on the British. Near the key island of Ceylon, at the southwestern entrance to the Bay of Bengal, R.A.F. fighters knocked down at least 75 Jap planes. Yet, after a week of combat, the British were weaker, the Japanese were relatively stronger than they had been when the battle started...