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...command the air corps of the Fourth Air Service Area (headquarters at Pendleton, Ore.), Lieut. Colonel John A. Macready, first dawn-to-dusk flyer from New York to San Diego...
Iraq is the lesser third of Sir Henry's command; like Persia, it is an occupied, but theoretically independent, nation under a regency and seven-year-old King Feisal II. The British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
Though Alexander had the misfortune to command two retreats (Dunkirk was the other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard...
...They used their air power in teamwork with ground forces. At Rommel's advancing columns they unleashed the fiercest air attack the desert has yet seen. Along with the British planes were U.S. bombers of Colonel C. G. Goodrich's command and U.S. fighters under the command of Brigadier General Auby Strickland. They routed the Luftwaffe by the very weight of numbers, until they were able to blast Rommel at will, morning, noon and night...
...R.A.F. Coastal Command believed at first that the gremlins climbed aboard in mid-air from the wings of sea gulls. It is generally believed now, however, that the gremlins have wings on their shoulders, but, if so, the wings are invisible in photographs (see cut). One school of thought favors vertical-lift propellers on each shoulder. The Coastal Command learned that gremlins love to punch holes in pontoons, jab pilots in the back when they are too busy to scratch, or drink up all the gasoline except just enough to make a landing...