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...Army Air Forces today is Lockheed's twin-tailed P-38 Lightning, which pilots heartily damned three years ago as clumsy and tricky. With plenty of high-altitude performance, the Lightning is now not only untricky, but a speedy, versatile performer, good for dive-bombing and troop-strafing as well as for meet ing the best of enemy fighters...
...busy. It has $600 million worth of unfilled orders for tanks, shells, howitzers, boats, aircraft assemblies and freight cars; it expects its cars to be used again, as in 1942, to transport eight million armed men and 18 million civilians; it may land a Government order for 1,200 troop-sleepers of new design, plus 400 mess cars; and it has ready for peacetime production a new, lightweight, 24-roomette duplex sleeping...
When the reviewing party came into the Stadium before the assembled troops, Colonel Wood took the position on the right of Governor Saltonstall. For troop inspection the position of honor went to Cadet Colonel Reynolds...
Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour, tireless troop entertainer, whose picture is a pin-up favorite of far-flung Army barracks, decided to marry a soldier whom she met on tour. He is Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, 35, peacetime Virginia lumberman, onetime Maryland state legislator. Captain Howard and the onetime elevator girl applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first...
...Cargoes of today, especially tanks, mobile artillery and aircraft, are harder to handle than cargoes of 1917-18. But the average round trip of freighters between the U.S. and Great Britain has been cut from 83 days then to 65 days now. In 1942 troop ships average a third less time idle or loading in home ports than they...