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...President, an extra-special meeting with the naval High Command only climaxed a week of many serious conferences...
...people began to feel that they had not paid enough attention to the fateful events in the Pacific. Perhaps even the managers of the war in Washington-the High Command, the allocators and the priorities-makers-had not paid the problem the first-priority attention it deserved...
Despite its Midway victory the Navy was still far from supreme. Families at their radios, domestic commentators over the coffee cups were asking questions. Again came the doubt that has sickled over so many "victories." News came of the command appointment in the South Pacific of aggressive Vice Admiral William
...later the Western Defense Command announced that the trailing plane that clipped the tail assembly was an army bomber. About all other details it was mum. Airline officials and pilots had cause to say: "I told you so." Long & loud have been their complaints about Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this...
...First Service Command has released the following statement governing enlistments in the Enlisted Reserve Corps: It will probably be required that, in the First Service Command, E.R.C. enlistments in the collages be completed previous to December 1, 1942. War Department orders direct that E.R.C. enlistments in the colleges be closed on an after January...