AIR: To India & Return

An arrival and a departure made airmen in India nod and grin last week. To India, without previous announcement, went able, soldierly Major General George E. Stratemeyer, fresh from his post as Chief of Staff for General H. H. Arnold in Washington. His new job: chief air officer in the India-Burma-China theater (comprising the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces).

From the Tenth Air Force (India) departed Major General Clayton L. Bissell, a year and a day after taking command. His successor: Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson, a West Pointer in Army aviation...

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