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...Command by Tradition. Commander of the Negro camp at Great Lakes is tall, amiable Lieut. Commander Daniel W. Armstrong, whose family tradition fits him for the job. His father, a brigadier general at 26, commanded Negro troops in the Civil War, later founded Virginia's Hampton Institute (vocational training) for Negroes...
General Yount's Flying Training Command now had scores upon scores of war-emergency fields, hacked quickly out of the U.S. earth from Florida to California. It had men by scores upon scores of thousands, learning how to fly, navigate, shoot, bomb. And FTC was still growing-for if air power can win the war, then General Yount's schools are the cradle of victory...
...spare moments, General Yount liked to refer to his command as "astronomical." The objective was stepped up from 12,000 to 30,000 pilots a year before Pearl Harbor, jumped to 50,000 afterward. Now it is far higher, eventually will probably exceed 100,000 pilots a year-plus bombardiers, navigators and gunners...
Slow Burner. For 58-year-old Barton Kyle Yount appointment to command of flight-training activities was logical. Since his graduation from West Point in 1907, he has advanced steadily as a military educator...
...times the Army has seen him flustered was at a training field where he had arranged to meet his son, Bart Jr., a West Point undergraduate and now a student flyer. General Yount climbed from his command plane, walked down the customary line of post officers to shake hands. At the end, surprised, he asked: "Where's Bart...