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...propaganda ghost-laying. All women who are attached to the Red Army are technicians, radio operators, cooks, messengers, engineers, drivers-and are no more formidable than Britain's ATS, WAAFS and WRENS, who do exactly the same jobs, and who also wear uniforms. There are no female combat privates in the Red Army, Nazi statements to the contrary. A few young women have been admitted as sharpshooters into OSOAVIAKHIM, Russia's Home Guard. Aside from them, any fire-spitting Amazons captured by the Germans are operating strictly on their...
...well-housed. From the beginning it had been well-fed. For its training-far from complete and still hampered by shortages of equipment-it is getting more practical field exercises than any U.S. Army ever had before. Its physical condition is superb. Some of its divisions are readier for combat service than any sent to Europe...
...Three Motorcycles." The top organization, Office for Emergency Management, was aptly described by Washington News Columnist Richard F. Scholz as "President Roosevelt, Wayne Coy and three motorcycles." OPM, the great factory whose most famed product is bottlenecks and coordinators, was in almost mortal combat with OPACS-merely over method. OPM and Lend-Lease Administration were fighting fiercely over jurisdiction. OPM and the Army were scrapping about ordnance; the Army and Lend-Lease were at loggerheads over which should get the produced planes, tanks, guns, etc. OPM and the Office of Civilian Defense were at odds; the State Department wrestled with...
Like most figures, this one was too simple. Since a great slice of new military aircraft building at the end of 1940 was trainers-badly needed by the Air Forces but useless for combat-the figures behind this figure were more significant...
...first half of 1941 U.S. aircraft factories had got going with a bang on fighting planes. Output of two-engined bombers was up 92%; single-engined dive-bombers and torpedo carriers, 146%; pursuit, observation and other combat aircraft, 142%. Only in the production of four-engined bombers was there little or no gain in the first half of 1941, but there was reason to expect that there would be plenty in the second half, with Consolidated (B-24s) and Boeing (B-17s) getting into high-speed production...