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Army to have 2-Million Unit By End of '43

By the United Press.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.--The War Department announced today that the United States Army air forces would be expanded to 2,000,000 officers and men. 

The announcement said that there will be 1,000,000 officers and men in the air forces this year and double that number later on. It is part of the air expansion plan by President Roosevelt calling for the construction of 185,000 planes in 1942 and 1943. 

As part of the expansion aid training will be added to the curriculum at the Military Academy at West Point. An unspecified number of cadets will be graduated as pilots and thus save a year which is now required for their air training after concluding their academic course. 

It is the first time that flying instruction has been given the West Pointers, and is recognition of the growing part of air power in our war setup.

All cadets desiring pilot training and who can pass the necessary physical examinations will be given elementary, basic and advanced flying training. The plan for training makes no basic changed in the academic schedule because the air instruction will replace "certain parts of tactical instruction."