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Naval Reserve activities have called John W. Lowes '20, financial vice-president, to serve as executive officer of the patrol gunboat St. Augustine for the duration of the national emergency...
...Pacific, regard the islands' chief sampan nest at the fisherman's wharf, a few miles from the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, as nothing more than a nest of Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies from its Japanese crew. But none has failed to notice that the boat's brightwork was gleaming, that the three or four men aboard looked uncommon bright and neat for fishermen, had binoculars...
...henceforth unsafe for shipping, few days later announced that their submarines in that area had sunk eight Axis supply ships and transports. This suggested that new troops, possibly German, were being hurriedly ferried across to Libya. Last week Berlin and Rome proudly announced that a German motorized advance patrol had met and defeated a British patrol near Agedábia, about 95 miles south of Bengasi and well to the east of the farthest point of British advance...
...points out, and could not justify the expensive specialized tooling required by mass-production methods. The military airplane relies on fluidity of designs to outfly the enemy, a multiplicity of designs to satisfy a multiplicity of functions (dive bombing, altitude bombing, torpedoing, strafing, bomber protection, interception, night pursuit, sea patrol, observation, training, transport and liaison work, etc.), a precision in design unnecessary to consumer goods. Thus military planes cannot be coaxed off the assembly line like V-8s-even in Detroit...
...academic study of U. S. air power, New York Times Military Expert Hanson W. Baldwin plumps for more bases (in the Galápagos Islands, in Canada and on the strategic shoulder of Brazil), suggests long-range bombers be withheld from Britain to patrol our "moats" and fill in for the two-ocean navy until its completion...