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Name and Rank: James Alward Van Fleet, lieutenant general, U.S. Army...
...Herete, her etc [farewell]," waved black-clothed peasants when Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet last week made his goodbye tour of army commands in loannina, Koizani and Salonika. Greeks consider upright, sturdy Van Fleet, who for 2% years has been the head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group in Greece, the symbol of America and eleftheria (freedom). He had helped the Greeks to win what he once called "a "first-class war against international Communism...
...Joint Chiefs recommended the dispatch of a small military mission, possibly no more than 20 officers, along the line of Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet's mission to Greece. Some time early in the year the Navy would probably dispatch an aircraft carrier into Western Pacific waters. Whether this would be enough to repel the expected all-out assault by the Communists next spring was up to the Nationalists themselves. What was more important, the U.S. was finally drawing a line in Asia, along which it would say to the spreading Communists: this far and no further...
...guerrillas who, more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...