U.S. Army Air Force Faces Reality of Few Combat Planes
A May dispatch reports the U.S. Army Air Force possesses 963 actual combat aircraft with only a half dozen fully modernized, self-sealing and armored planes, despite a push to raise strength to about 8,066 planes under emergency and regular 1941 programs aiming for 50 000 total warplanes nationwide.
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Mack Johnson
Washington
U.P
U. S .Rmy Air Force
Europe
Army Air Corps
Army
United States
Rroosevelt
Atmet
Air Force
Army Air Force
Uscs
Tring
Miscin
Navy
Brynes
U S Military Plans Emphasize Training and Anti Aircraft Upgrades
Gen. Marshall told a Senate subcommittee that the army and navy will boost pilot training with a target of 16,000 pilots and thousands of planes, while anti-aircraft capabilities lag. The army seeks 90 mm guns and 50 caliber machine guns, plus better detection gear as European air power prompts rapid U S defense moves.
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Navy
Army
Europea Pelligerents
Army Air Corps
German Air Corps
Royalir
George C. Marshall
Senate Military’ Appropriations Subcommittee
National Guard
U. S
Ttk
Air Corps
Europe
Maj
Gren
H. H. Arnold
Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee
Poland
America Roused To Defense Needs In Era Of Preparedness
The nation vows to harden defenses amid a booming program in Congress nearly reaching 4 billion dollars. President Roosevelt seeks alien control, while crowds confront Nazi agents in Del Rio and New York hosts anti parachutist drives and education plans to outmaneuver totalitarian thought.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Justice Department
Washington
del Rio
Tex
Texas
Union
New York
National Legion of the Mothers of America
U.S
John W. Studebaker
Bureau of Reclamation
Boulder Dam
Literature Is Burned After Man Refuses To Salute Flag
In Del Rio on May 23 a stranger with two women and religious booklets was ordered from the city after declaring allegiance to no government and refusing to salute the U S flag. Police escorted them to their car as a crowd watched and burned some literature and phonograph records the man dismissed as a rag. The gathering was calm and the man admitted receiving 15 dollars monthly as a war veteran.
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del Rio
United States
J. 8. Bradford
Rooosevelt
L. Freyrig
Bones of Indian Found Date Back 1 000 Years
The skeleton of an Indian who lived about 1,000 years ago was unearthed at Dresden near Geneva on Seneca Lake. Archaeologist William A. Ritchie of the Rochester Museum said the remains were found with 14 other Indians in a sand knoll, with those skeletons buried roughly 500 years ago and well preserved.
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Genfva
NW. Y
U.P
Dresden
Seneca Lake
William A. Ritchie
Rochester Museum
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