In London Major General Harold L. George, boss of the Army's Air Transport Command, gave an interview. America, the General said, was just lucky that Japan, like the U.S., had never organized an independent air force. He added:
"We can only be thankful that Japan's air might is hampered by the same kind of thinking; there the Navy dominates the air force. It was Navy thinking which caused them to attack battleships of the line at Pearl Harbor instead of continuing on to the West Coast and crippling the big airplane plants in...
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