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...Eighth's Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker not been certain the Luftwaffe was being pushed inland, he never would have tried an eight- to ten-hour daylight raid over Germany...
Precision Bombing. For Army airmen, biggest thing of the year was the final, definite proof of its bombing doctrines. Disregarding the skepticism of British airmen, Major General Ira Eaker of the Eighth Air Force (TIME, Aug. 30) had finally shown that his Fortresses and Liberators could consistently hit pinpoint targets from' altitudes above 20,000, thus be relatively safe from anti-aircraft defenses. His airmen had also shown that with their .50-caliber guns they were more than a match for German fighters. By bombing and gunnery they had become the biggest threat to Germany's vital fighter...
Where this will leave Major General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the Eighth, the War Department has not yet announced. One guess was that he would become commander of the Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers). Another was that Ira Eaker would remain U.S. air chief in Britain and thus be assured of another star for his shoulder straps...
...nation-wide publicity following British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's remarks about it in his Sanders Theatre address on Labor Day, Basic English, an international language formulated by Ira A. Richards of Harvard's Orthological Committee and F. K. Ogden of Cambridge University and London, England, has been acclaimed as one of the major cultural developments hastened...
Company Commander Ira Reese, with several years of active service in the Navy behind him, is the sea-dog among us. Sub-Commander Matt Stacom and Adjutant Clair Merritt, along with a majority of the men in this company, were classmates at Abbot Hall, Northwestern University...