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Allied air blows will knock out Germany or leave the Nazis too groggy to resist invasion. So predicted ebullient General "Hap" Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Said he: "As the number of bombers increases, the percentage of losses is going to decrease. Operations from Italy are going to force the Germans to spread their defenses. . . . We hope to bring over Europe such [forces] that, with Russia, we will have 360-degree bombing of Germany-hitting her from every side...
...look ahead and prepare the East Wing of the White House to be a museum? He made sketches, blueprints were drawn, carpenters carried them out. Now, in the wing where Byrnes, Hopkins, Leahy and Lubin have their offices, all is ready for carpenters to come again after the war, knock down old partitions, put up new ones to make a series of at least 31 rooms...
Bombers and torpedo bombers from a U.S. carrier force unloaded 90 tons of explosives on Nauru, 500 miles west of the Gilberts. And on Saturday, when the landing forces struck, Army Liberators again attacked objectives in the Marshalls. Purpose: to ground or knock out the Jap air force before the invasion fleet arrived...
Behind the scary shortage talk some officials saw a shrewd attempt by the manufacturers to knock out crop control of tobacco, probably the only crop which will be restricted next year. By & large, growers back crop control even now, fearing a swamped market and depressed prices in the postwar years, and there is grave doubt whether knocking off all quotas would materially increase planting. Acreage allotments have been steadily upped for three years, including a 20% hop for next year, but manpower and fertilizer shortages have kept plantings below quotas...
...principle of numbers also applies to bombers, especially in Europe, where their ability to defend themselves and knock down fighters increases out of all proportion as the numoers are increased. So it is that in the U.S.'s huge aircraft production (nearly 8,000 in September) airmen see something more than aircraft of superior quality. They also see numbers as decisive, an outlook that may bind the U.S. to more extensive postwar production of aircraft and a larger peacetime air force than most U.S. citizens now expect...