Unity

In New Delhi, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, disciple of unified command, welded units of the R.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces into a single air force. Its commander:purse-mouthed, able Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, onetime chief of R.A.F.'s Bomber Command.

Air Marshal Peirse's deputy, studious Major General George E. Stratemeyer, was Chief of Staff for General "Hap" Arnold before going to field duty in India last summer. There General Stratemeyer commanded both Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson's Tenth Air Force (India) and Chennault's famed Fourteenth (China).

Air unity had grown in the India-China command in a progressive pattern since Howard Davidson had taken over command of the Tenth Air Force. Peace came quickly to two commands which had done a lot of bickering between good jobs of fighting with too-few planes.

Last week U.S. unity seemed to have reached its top. It was announced that in November Chennault's Liberators had flown down across the Himalayas into India, teamed up with Tenth Air Force heavies and set out all together for two blistering so-plane raids on Rangoon.

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