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These basic facts were known when the Nazi High Command sat down to plan the German campaign of 1942. They are axioms which must have been burned into the military brain of Hitler's No. 1 strategist, Generaloberst Franz Haider, Chief of the German Army's General Staff...
First School. Realizing that Hitler doesn't keep some 28,000 gliders just for fun, the Army opened the first of nine full-scale gliding schools at Twentynine Palms, Calif. last January. Chubby, 25-year-old West Point Captain Lester Cecil Hess is in command. Because there are not enough Army glider instructors to go round, civilian instructors have been brought in. Many officers have been graduated from the four-week course. Last week the second class of enlisted men were graduated, became staff sergeants with flying...
These are but a small sample of the jobs now being done by airline-operated cargo planes working with the newly formed Army Air Service Command. When the Army last month bought outright almost half the 324-plane U.S. airline fleet, it kept 63 planes to use as troop transports. The Army then leased 96 remaining planes back to the airlines, gave them the job of carrying every ounce of Army air freight in the Western Hemisphere. The Ferry Command flies most of the Army's freight going to Africa, Australia, other far-off places...
Among the most popular jobs was "confidential" war work at the interceptor command headquarters of the First Corps Area. Women students attending the Summer School registered in large numbers for work as hospital orderlies...
...life story to Franklin Roosevelt (Captain Jack Young) in the White House, where he is summoned to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is the story of a cocky, puckish, talented Irish-American, who accepted the accident of his birth on July 4, 1878 as an implied command to wave the Stars & Stripes forever. Critics called the act corny, but audiences recognized it for what it was: a born showman expressing a sincere emotion...