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Show Page 4 June SERVICE SHORTS 1 r : a Air Force Wens In Brief air materiel command filer. CLASS IV 1957, 1958 & 1959 i..'. Carries a Lesson D-D- ay i;; !June 0, 1044,' is a dat secure in history at least for all men and nations who, prefer not to forget the stunning military steamroller that, free men put into action that day. In preparation for, the great assault on Fortress Europe the U.S., British and Canadian planners, had amassed more than 2 million troops and 10 million tons of weapons, munitions and equipment. There were 4,000 ships to speed them across the Channel; there were 11,000 planes to fight their battle in the skies. Looking back, we remember how the whole free world riveted its fascinated eyes on the epic invasion of Normandy. If Hitler had pushed the Allies back into the sea on "The Longest Day," the course of the war would certainly have been prolonged also altered, who knows . i : '. 1 JAPAN PLANE The first airplane to fly in Japan, a Farman Viosin biplane which carried Capt. (later General) Yoshitoshi Tokugawa aloft Dec. 19, 1910, has been returned to the Japanese people after 15 years of U.S. custody. Returned to Japan packed in crates, the flimsy plane crossed the Pacific in the hold of a giant Hercules turboprop. It will be reassembled under the supervision of Hiram R. Haggett, chief of the operations division, Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterso- n AFB, Ohio. The Air Force returned the anti que plane to Japan in a gesture of friendliness and in commemora tion of the 50th Anniversary of Powered Flight in Japan. TO how ? " It ia history in more ways than one such a giant amphibious assault has passed into history because in any future great war nuclear weapons will make such a vast concentration of troops and equipment militarily disastrous. No camouflage, no. secrecy, could prevent its being blasted off the map. carries a lesson no one anywhere should discredit. Still, that It is the enormous effort, the incredible might that can be poured into a shatterng blow by free nations determined to rid the world of disturbers of the peace. WWII had many frictions and dissensions among the Allies, but for the main job of winning it they kept their eyes and " gunsights ion the common purpose. D-D- ay When important world events that affect all of us develop with dizzying speed, the voices of alarmists are often louder and shriller than those of reasonable men. And because they are, we are apt to pay most attention to them and become alarmists ourselves. Take the people around us. One man has a good mind and a stolid disposition; but he's indifferent to tlie international devel opments in the news that are tomorrow s history. Another follows those developments closely. He reads the daily papers really reads them, not just dips into the comics and sport pages. He keeps abreast of TV and radio newscasts and discussion panels. He buys the news magazines. All of this makes him well informed. The trouble is that by nature he's an incorrigible alarmist, the type who sees doom and dent met ion around every corner. It's his temperament. And because he's articulate and abreast of what's happening, he's able to infect that more stolid character with his own panic. That's no good because a panicked man is a poor man in action. The point: "Don't get your news and your opinions of the news Becond hand. Wherever you are, news media are available and it's only a lazy man who shuts his eyes and ears to them. 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