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...students have been divided into two battalions which drill twice a week under the command of Seniors who will be taking Mil Sei 4 next fall...
Only a few days before the Army's Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, Chief of the Western Defense Command, had conferred at Sitka with the Navy's Commander A. J. Isbell-and the photograph, suddenly appearing out of the Navy's rigid Alaskan censorship, had been the only clue to an Alaskan action...
...Tall, lean, fiercely mustached Brigadier General Frank O'Driscoll Hunter, 47, the new fighter-command chief. "Monk" Hunter loves fighter planes, even though he spent nine months in a hospital when one fell apart in a test at 15,000 feet. He has sported his militarissimous mustache since World War I when he became an eight-plane ace, was continually cited for ferocity: "On patrol he encountered six monoplanes. He immediately attacked...
Hale Frank, 56, is Air Service Command chief, a highly vocal disciplinarian and the only West Pointer in the group besides his boss. "Tooey" Spaatz. "Tony" Frank is a belligerent partisan of air power. Officers left behind in Washington agreed "Tooey Spaatz, like every other officer, has spent 20-odd years picking the staff he would want for a time like this, and now he's got it. And those boys aren't over there for English...
...German command in North Africa may not have cared whether or not Churchill made good his threat to retaliate against Rome. The raids-two of them within the space of three days-were prompted by military necessity. Objectives were airdromes from which Allied planes had been harrying Rommel's supply lines. Actually, though Cairo threw up a mighty and thunderous barrage, the raid was small, soon scattered, resulted in one fatality and "slight damage." Most of the bombs fell in the suburbs. London was inclined to let it pass...