Army & Navy: School for Combat

Like any other soldiers, airmen learn more in a few hours of fighting than in months of training; the smart ones convert their varied experiences to new techniques of battle. Last week on the palm-and pine-dotted sands of central Florida the Army Air Forces showed how it was spreading these new arts of war through squadrons fighting around the world.

The Air Forces headquarters for combat expertness is a postgraduate school. Its name: the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics, at Orlando. There air men learn such new developments as Chennault's winning...

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