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...Poland and the Lowlands, Germany proved that the side with command of the air can operate successfully on the surface. Britain proved it again in the retreat from Dunkirk. In the Battle of Britain, Germany came close to proving Mitchell down to the last paragraph, but failed because she went at the job with too little vision (and too few airplanes) and because Britain took command...
...Billy Mitchell's men are still on the job and they are in the top drawer of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Harold L. George, who testified for him in his court-martial in 1926, is a brigadier bossing the Ferrying Command. One of Mitchell's defense counsels, Annapolis-educated Lewis Hyde Brereton, is a major general in command of U.S. Air Forces in India and China. Another defense witness, Henry Harley Arnold, has gone farther than the rest...
Supplies and men are being flown across the oceans of the world and the Ferrying Command has become as important as any of the fighting outfits. It has become more vocal. Ship sinkings by Axis submarines have thrown a load on air power and the Ferrying Command is shouting for more cargo carriers...
...helmet. The giant four-engine bomber was, according to an R.A.F. officer, an "eye opener." The crew was so numerous that those on the ground began wondering when the queue of men jumping from the plane would end. The crew immediately formed two ranks and, at the word of command, donned overalls and began servicing the craft. They explained that this invariable practice of Russian flying crews on landing made sure their plane was ready for further action immediately. Though the highest quality of aviation gasoline was brought for refueling, the Russians insisted on testing its octane capacity before pumping...
...Marshal Arthur Travers Harris chief of the R.A.F. bomber command and father of the 1,000-plane raids on the Reich-Knight Commander of the Bath...