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...this is part of a selfish, thoroughly practical form of U.S. aid-to-Britain. The Army pilots assigned to delivery duty are members of a new Army Ferry Command. Under the U.S. Army's famed Colonel Robert Olds, a big-bomber fiend who started out as a private in World War I, this organization has complete responsibility for delivering all U.S.-made British aircraft in Canada. While speeding up deliveries, the new system will also give Army pilots priceless experience in flying big bombers. Because so many U.S. bombers are going to Great Britain, the Army itself is woefully...
...Marshal William Sholto Douglas, chief of the Fighter Command, who invented the sweeps, was not kidding himself about them. He knew that much of the Luftwaffe's best had been withdrawn to tackle the Reds. But meanwhile there was hay to be got in, and he was losing no time getting...
This week Winston Churchill put a new general in command of Britain's vital and much-criticized battle of production on the home front. From the Ministry of State to the Ministry of Supply he moved dynamic, able, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, who proved himself an able pepper-upper as Minister for Aircraft Production...
...close of the Second Army's maneuvers in Tennessee (TIME, June 23, et seq.), Lieut. General Ben Lear's harshest words were aimed at "the chain of command"-meaning the officers through whom orders are transmitted from the C.O. to every buck private in the field. Said...
...Unless the chain of command can be perfected . . . disastrous embarrassments and failures will be encountered during battle. Front-line capabilities of the Army's officers should and must receive the attention of all officers. I regret to say that our chain of command is weak-weak to the extent that if this condition is allowed to continue, the chain, at its weak links, will break whenever an emergency imposes a heavy load...