Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Dunkirk the First was formed up in southeast and eastern England. Its first two commanders, fittingly, were Alexander and Montgomery, though the latter only commanded for about a week. Then Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson took over...
...training job was terrific. Whereas the Eighth Army had thousands of square miles of desert to range and thousands of gallons of Iraq-Persia oil to expend, General Anderson had to conduct his maneuvers on the great farm that is England, and ration his thirsty tanks to save shipping. He had to remember that a single armored division's exercises would destroy crops equal to one week's food for England. Consequently the First had very little training as an Army before it went off to the wars...
...With a Purpose. Kenneth Anderson brings to the First Army a cosmopolitan point of view which it needs-fighting as it is with French and Americans against Germans and Italians on French, and perhaps eventually Italian, soil. His background is broad. He is a Scot. He was born in India on Christmas, 1891. He was educated in England at Charterhouse and Sandhurst. He fought in France, Syria and Palestine in World War I. Between wars he traveled widely in the Middle East, from Tibet to the Mediterranean. He has spoken French since boyhood and has a good working knowledge...
...General Anderson wants his troops to enjoy a Dunkirk in reverse. But he knows that they have a bigger task than that enjoyment. For though revenge lies just beyond the bitter hills and at the ends of the valleys, victory lies farther away. Victory is beyond the islands and over...
Meanwhile a Swedish songstress named Lala Anderson (whose recording had caused the Belgrade furor) had made Lili Marleen the rage of Berlin cabarets. Actress Emmy Sonnemann (Frau Hermann Göring) sang it for Nazi bigwigs at a concert in Berlin's Kroll Opera House...