In Washington, Secretary of War Stimson announced a pattern for the Air Forces' future. By next June, said he, the Air Forces will be close to triple the size it was last June. It will have 400,000 flying cadets and enlisted men (plus some 40,000 officers), will have planes for its pilots, who by that time should total 25,000.
Added Mr. Stimson: "Subsequent expansion, possibly to the 500,000 level, is possible beyond that date."
When World War II's urgency first struck the country, after the fall of France, the Air Forces (then the...
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