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...three senior commanders under General MacArthur, two were Americans: Lieut. General George H. Brett, a veteran of Java, in charge of the air, and Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary, in command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
...Australians hoped, with a somewhat bitter hope, that it would be General Sir Thomas Blarney, or some other Australian...
...General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, Australian deputy commander of the Middle East Forces (see p. 30)-Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. Grizzled, hearty General Sir Thomas fought like blazes in World War I, had just retired from a business career and was planning a honeymoon when the present war called him back to command...
...Archibald Percival Wavell as Allied Commander in Chief for the Pacific (see p. 17) with mixed thoughts. She may tolerate British command only if Britain and the U.S. spare her enough material fully to equip her home armies; or if Britain decides to appoint General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney or some other Australian officer to an important command...
...illusion faded when the U.S.S. Kearny (rhymes with Blarney), a crack destroyer scarcely a year in service, was torpedoed. But the illusion did not disappear until the nation felt the dull visceral shock of reading its first casualty list of World War II, reading of its own men "The next of kin have been notified...