ARMY & NAVY: Eagles

ARMY & NAVY

To Panama, where Peace-Dove Lindbergh sprinkled goodwill three months ago, the War Department's two chief eagles—Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and Major-General James E. Fechet, Chief of Army Air Corps—last month flew to inspect the Canal's defenses.

Said Secretary Davison: "You can look at maps until the cows come home, but ... we came down here expressly for the purpose of seeing."

They not only saw the Canal's defenses, but saw them in action, in a "war game" last week. Eleven Navy bombing planes played "enemy" against 25 Army defense planes under a torrid blue sky and at...

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