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Under this reorganization, the air arm became the Army Air Forces. It is divided into two parts: Air Corps, which does the housekeeping (training, maintenance, etc.) and Combat Command, which does the fighting. There were many other innovations-a Ferrying Command, Air Service Command, etc. After years of an amorphous existence, the Air Corps was organized...
...also got its own general staff. In organization, at least, the air arm is now an air army, comparable to the ground army. To head his staff, "Hap" Arnold, the Chief of the Army, picked Brigadier General Carl M. Spaatz, who last week was upped to two stars and command of the Combat Command. "Tooey" Spaatz's successor as Chief of Air Staff, appointed last week, is Major General Millard F. Harmon, studious, West Point-trained onetime-cavalryman and pursuit pilot...
...visited a command post in one sector where they had just rounded up a bunch of Nips. A Marine outfit had surrounded them in the hills, tossed a few grenades. The survivors shouted: 'We surrender.' But when the Marines came out of cover the Japs opened up with machine guns. They had to be beaten all over again...
LONDON--The Soviet High Command said tonight that the German Army in Russia suffered "enormous losses in equipment and manpower" as the Red Army continued its relentless offensive on several sectors of the wintry front...
...typhus increased ten times over 1939, in 1941 three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing on the disease with anti-Semitic posters. One, picturing a gigantic louse and a horribly caricatured Jewish face, was lettered simply JEWS&151;LICE&151;SPOTTED TYPHUS. At the same time the Nazis were said...