HUGE U.S. AIR FORCE
Work In Pacific Praised
(Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 28. A message from Miami Beach (Florida) says that the United States Air Forces will have 2,500,000 officers and men at the end of 1943. LieutenantGeneral H. H. Arnold, the Air Forces commander, gave this information to 2500 graduates of the Air Forces Candidate School.
Lieutenant-General Arnold praised the work of the pilots, gunners and engineers in the Pacific area. He said the United States had constructed a chain of island air bases linking Hawaii and
Australia, replacing the route broken by the Japanese capture of Wake Island. On one coral island, which he did not name because the Japanese probably did not know of it, engineers had built runways comparable with those of any huge city airport. They had also constructed a plane hoist from the timber of a wrecked ship.
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Southland Times, Issue 24888, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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146HUGE U.S. AIR FORCE Southland Times, Issue 24888, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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