SPANNING PACIFIC
NEW CHAIN OF AMERICAN BASES
MIAMI BEACH (Florida). Oct. 28
The United States Air Force will have 2,500,000 officers and men at the end of 1943, Lieutenant-General H. H. Arnold, commander of the Army Air Forces, told 2500 graduates of a candidate school.
General Arnold praised the work done by pilots, gunners, and engineers in the Pacific area, and said that the United States had constructed a chain of island air bases linking Hawaii and Australia and replacing the
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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