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Persistent Problems. Japan has a Navy only slightly below parity with the combined U.S. Pacific and Asiatic Fleets, an Air Force of perhaps 4,000 combat planes. Japan is said to have 2,000,000 men in arms, 4,500,000 in reserve, for whom weapons may not be available...
Adolf Hitler tried to make the U.S. be lieve that the Kearny was escorting a convoy. From Berlin came a claim that a convoy had been attacked after it entered Germany's combat zone, that ten freighters and two "enemy destroyers" had been sunk. The location was close to the spot where the Kearny was hit. But the fact was that the Kearny, like the Greer, was out sub-hunting when...
...armored forces were only seven mechanized cavalry regiments with light tanks, a regiment of obsolete armored cars, two battalions of infantry tanks, most of these with only a machine gun each. > The British had only about 130 fighter planes in France. (The French had only 40 bombers for daylight combat...
...every weatherbeaten Air Forces officer who is entitled to write "C. Obsr." (Combat Observer) after his name is actually a good observer. In fact, few of them are, because most of them are primarily combat pilots. Few men can keep up in both fields, and few want to. Last week the Air Forces was getting a new brand of observer...
...find such paragons, Air Forces snapped young officers from Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery (thus short-cutting basic military training), took only a few newcomers to military life. One of them: Captain Elliott Roosevelt, Specialist Reserve, who will report for combat training next month after finishing a course as a navigator...