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Show Aerial Fighting Puts Weather on New War Role BOSTON. The phrase "military science" has a new and deeper significance sig-nificance in this war, according to Capt, William W. Jones of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. The general pace of modern warfare war-fare is geared to economic production produc-tion and advances in scientific knowledge, says Captain Jones, who reveals that military aviation cannot can-not act independently of meteorology. He quotes a high-ranking British authority who says: "The chief of a bomber command has to be concerned first with meteorology and secondly with strategy." In view of this new development in modern warfare the army air force turned its energies to the perfection per-fection of a complete meteorological department and is training a full complement of expert weather forecasters fore-casters for duty with the military forces. Men for this work are hand- picked from college alumni, all come highly recommended and many are Phi Beta Kappas. Special training is being carried out at several of the nation's engineering engi-neering schools and the best in field equipment is provided as they move into their army stations. Nor is the new branch of the service designed as an emergency measure. Their work will go on in peacetime or wartime. |
