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...issues in U.S. defense last week slowly reached cherry-red heat. Congress, press and public all obviously had an itch to take a hand in settling the question of whether the U.S. air forces should be taken from the Army and Navy, and set up as an independent air command...
...Marine flier (who still holds a colonel's reserve commission), now the ranking Republican member of the House Naval Affairs Committee. One of the ablest Congressional critics of naval and military affairs, he, too, believed that the air forces had been hampered by the general Army and Navy commands; that in some respects U.S. conceptions of air power and its use are outmoded by the lessons of World War II. But he also understood that the first lesson of that war-and particularly of Germany's successes-was that effort by all arms must be coordinated, under...
...Luftwaffe alone that had conquered Crete; the Luftwaffe skillfully screened, transported, delivered land fighters who conquered with the attacking airmen. So Congressman Maas proposed first to provide the U.S. forces (Army, Navy, Marines) with a real, overall command. Then, said he, consider what to do with the land, sea and air forces under that coordinating direction...
These fine young officers are the product of two institutions. In the early years of the republic, Paoting Military Academy turned out eight classes of men who helped implement the revolution of Sun Yat-sen and who now command about one-third of China's 300-odd divisions. In 1924 the Whampoa Academy was founded under the direction of Chiang Kaishek. Its classes became the elite of Chiang's armies. They now command more than half of the divisions...
Widely circulated in London was the account of an Australian officer in Crete, suggesting that the British Command had merely expected a "leisurely sea invasion." Said he: "We were having a nice sunbathing holiday till the Germans came. . . . A truck driver was telling my Colonel that he had seen men coming down by parachute 16 miles up the road. I did not believe...