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...could see (and was told by Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall) that its Army could muster enough initial combat equipment for about...
Congress since 1934 has let the Navy: 1) build up from relative decrepitude to a strong fleet of 301 combat ships, inferior in tonnage only to Great Britain's; 2) get to work on 62 more, plan 63 others; 3) acquire 1,780 of 3,000 projected planes. The chronically neglected Army got started later in 1937. Up to last week it had at hand or on order : >- 227,000 of its 280,000 authorized...
...Herd Combat. Not on the Allied program was engagement of the German armored herds by herds of Allied tanks. Defensive warfare of position called for artillery replies to tank offensives. But such was the Germans' speed that the French command was forced to admit a war of maneuver had begun. When German Panzertruppen crossed the Albert...
...fighting often boils down to single combat between planes and British experts claimed the R. A. F. preferred to fight in small units...
...named Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr. Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson wants the Army to buy a semi-automatic rifle which he has designed. The Army has tested the Johnson rifle, says the Garand is better, has not published enough comparative data to prove or disprove its statement. "Ideal for combat and for battlefield firing," Major General Walter C. Short called the Garand last week, reporting its performance in Army maneuvers. Expert Ness rates the Johnson far above the Garand...