Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who served as an armored force major in Libya in 1942 and knows how it feels to fight without air superiority, stepped into a Senate hearing room last week and fired off another broadside
(TIME, May 7) in the battle for a bigger Air Force. What Lodge wants is a combat-ready Air Force of 150 groups.
For two hours, behind closed doors, Lodge spelled out his plan. Under the present program for a 95-group Air Force, he said, the U.S. will be able to muster only one-third of the tactical aviation it would need to repel an...
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