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...would be serious transportation difficulties getting selectees to and from outlying bases. If our Army is in such a ridiculously poor condition that it cannot cope with the apparently insoluble problem involved in transporting a relatively few selectees to and from some of its own outlying bases, the High Command is certainly in need of drastic overhauling...
...such signs the U.S. public learned last week that the newest section of The U.S. Army Air Forces-the Ferrying Command-had started to function. It was furiously busy clearing the pile-up of completed bombers for Britain that had clogged aircraft-factory parking areas. The Ferrying Command, organized only a month ago, had lost its first men. But that was an expected incident. More important, it was delivering ships-to the Atlantic seaboard for shipment by sea, to Canada for flying across the North Atlantic...
Closemouthed about its new activity, The Air Forces nevertheless let a few hints drop on the scope of the Ferrying Command's job. At Detroit, at Nashville, at Dayton and other points it had set up stations manned by crack engineering crews. Their job was to fit transient bombers with items of equipment (instruments, armament, etc.) not available when they finished their last test flights at the factories. To man the bombers, the Ferrying Command already had around 200 air crews, was reputedly planning to run the total up to 600 before long. For this expansion it was training...
Since Britain is getting around two-thirds of all U.S. military aircraft production (perhaps 1,000 of the 1,476 in June -see p. 32) the upstart Ferrying Command was getting all the priority it needed in men and materials. It also had a go-getting commander who has long had a reputation in the Army flying service for getting what he needs. The Ferrymen's boss, slim, 45-year-old Colonel Robert Olds, who has been flying for the Army since he was commissioned in 1917, today is as fine a big-ship handler as there...
Herbie Fields and his boys have been playing at Fort Dix every night. For dances at the Officers' Club they were glad to pocket what they would once have considered "black" money-$1.43 apiece. On their tour, by special permission of the Second Army Corps Command, they are part of U.S. Motor Camp Shows, sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy...