The vast and horrifyingly incidental cost of war was underlined last week in a report by the Army Air Forces. Since Pearl Harbor 11,000 Army airmen have been killed in the U.S., most of them before they ever saw a battlefront.
The A.A.F. called it the "inevitable wastage of war." On the other side of the ledger were: 1) the 76,780,000 hours flown in the U.S. in that time; 2) the 226,346 pilots and crewmen who were successfully trained; 3) the incalculable number of men who survived the test of battle because of the "frankly dangerous" training they got before they...
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