Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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In this week's Army and Navy Journal, the Air Corps's Major General Henry H. Arnold passed on the following tale from a U. S. military observer in Great Britain:
An American air observer (identity withheld) in Britain recently visited a station of the Fighter Command on a quiet day and was invited to take a turn over the field in a Spitfire. With R. A. F. escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a...
For the casual observer finds the fire station, located in front of Mem Hall, a Republican cartoon of W.P.A. inaction. Everywhere shirt-sleeved men are loafing. In the third floor recreation room a dozen firefighters play penny ante, some of the more energetic shoot pool, and a few others watch...
The subject matter in the course, however, has not changed radically within the last twenty years, and to the peaceable observer, war seems to have jumped ahead of the school of the soldier. The pace of battle has been stepped up immeasurably. Airplanes have succeeded trenches as the outstanding factor...
Whatever the little eddies and whirlpools of battle, the main tide was unmistakable. London was getting ripe for evacuation. Evacuation would fill Britain's roads and rail lines with refugees. Britain's rear would then be meat for total war. The censors permitted the New York Herald Tribune...