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...Army Commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons, 53, Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, a flyer since 1917 (4,000 hours plus), a hard-riding perfectionist, tough as parachute silk. This appointment significantly put a flyer in command of all Army forces in Hawaii...
...Clark Field alongside Fort Stotsenberg, 50 miles northwest of Manila, the gun crews had just finished their noonday Monday dinner when the Jap struck. Well-trained but combat-raw, the gunners spotted a precise formation of 52 planes high in the blue sky. They watched, began to wonder. Then they knew...
There may be more illustrious, more spectacular acts as the war develops, but deeds of America's first heroes will compare with any. Inexperienced in combat, surprised and not entirely prepared, they more than held their own against long experienced Japanese pilots...
Idea behind the changes is to permit the easy formation within an Armored Division of two powerful combat teams, each consisting of a tank regiment with an artillery battalion (three batteries), and still have an artillery battalion in divisional reserve-a more flexible organization for getting things done...
They also knew they could meet the assignment-had already begun to meet it. Said Blau-Knox's William Porter Witherow, new N.A.M. president: "In the first seven months of 1941, American manufacturers sent to England nearly twice as many combat planes as were lost defending the British Isles during the whole preceding year. . . . No matter how frequently the specifications are raised, industry will produce to meet them...