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...When I was standing in a command post at the base of a mountain planes were suddenly heard overhead. Everybody took cover before we saw they were our own P-40s-four of them...
...Britain's war councils, both productive and military, are rotten with dead wood and cluttered with red tape, that production could be 40% greater. Although he was doubtless right that Britain had been unable to reinforce Malaya, he did not explain away the fact that the British high command had mistakenly believed that Malaya could successfully repel any attack. His skillful apologies for the military past were little assurance for the future...
...tomatoes, even green ones, were hurried to scurvy-ridden German troops in Africa. Livestock, dried vegetables and fruits went the same way. The Germans fried Greek potatoes in Greek fat and shipped them, cooked, back to Germany. The Nazi Army of Occupation, during the two months it was in command, bought up all stocks of clothes with bundles of their worthless "occupation marks." By report, the only relief the Axis has given to Greece has been 10,000 tons of grain which Italy sent from her own slim stores-secretly so that underfed Italians should not protest...
...exalted eyrie where top-ranking U.S. Air Force officers clasp the crag, a new eaglet stretched his wings and soared. Succeeding to the job which Lieut. General Delos Emmons left when he took over the Hawaiian Department, Major General Carl Spaatz became Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command...
Born 50 years ago into a Pennsylvania Dutch family as Carl Spatz (one a), the new Chief of the Army Air Force Combat Command has taken a good deal of kidding because of his name. About five years ago, tired of hearing strangers address him as General Spats, he added the extra a, indicating clearly that "Spots" was how he heard it. It still sounds, as it is, a German name, but Carl Spaatz believes in facing right up to that kind of thing. In 1940, while visiting an English airdrome near London, he signed his name and occupation...