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...Allies proposed to relieve Rus sia was plain for all to see. Franklin Roosevelt had just sent Major General Dwight David Eisenhower to England to take command of U.S. forces in the European theater. U.S. ground and air troops have been pouring into Britain and Northern Ireland for months. All the indications are that Russia is to be relieved, first by a searing attack from the air, then by a land invasion, if it is still needed when the bombers have finished their work...
...Much Air? Just as ground armies must be air-minded, so must air forces be ground-minded. In North Africa, as in every other theater of World War II, the Luftwaffe was ground-minded; the R.A.F. was rigidly air-minded. Rommel had absolute command of all German and Italian air units; Britain's Generals Ritchie and Auchinleck had none, except through their warming, thoroughly British and thoroughly inadequate personal contact with Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham...
...Britain's armored divisions, whose auxiliary units of infantry and artillery are merely "attached" to the main forces and may be detached at any time. In the German and U.S. Armies, armored divisions are firmly welded units, with tanks, artillery, infantry and even aviation permanently under the same command. The British Army's tenacious hold upon its ancient & honorable distinctions goes deep into British character; but it is no help at beating the Germans...
...dripping hand of the monsoon lay heavy on northern India and Burma, but the U.S. Ferrying Command flew on, up to Kunming, to Chungking, to many another secret China base...
Pilots of the Chungking Ferry-regulars, veterans of U.S. airlines, reserve officers-had never seen such incredible, sloshing weather. No longer did they sound the old pilots' wheeze, that even the crows were walking. The new one was that the fish were drowning. Near one Ferrying Command base the skies bucket down 500 inches of rain in the five months of the monsoon (average New York City annual rainfall, 43 in.), and up to now the rainmaker was on schedule...