Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of water-borne supplies. Other A.S.F. troops are being pulled out of Europe to build supply dumps and barracks in the Philippines, which will be the staging area for the final campaign against Japan. Luzon will be the England of the Pacific war, although, as A.S.F. chief General Brehon Somervell regretfully noted: "It is 1350 miles from the Philippines to Japan as against 100 miles from England to France...
Joseph T. McNarney, Omar N. Bradley, Walter Krueger, Brehon B. Somervell, Carl Spaatz, George C. Kenney, Mark Clark, Jacob L. Devers, Thomas T. Handy...
First there was able, boot-tough Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces. With ever more & more men to feed, General Somervell demanded more & more food. The Army, which already feeds part of the French and Italian armies, prisoners of war, etc., recently added 300,000 liberated Philippine Scouts to its chow line. General Somervell was out for all he needed, and he needed...
Designed to furnish oil to U.S. troops in Alaska, it had never achieved much stature except in Lieut. General Brehon Somervell's Army Service Forces. The Truman Committee had called the $134,000,000 collection of oil wells, refinery and pipeline "inexcusable": long before it was completed, Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes had said it should be junked...
They heard this straight from the mouth of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, hard-bitten boss of the Army Service Forces, who gravely noted that current production of munitions is lagging behind consumption (see U.S. AT WAR). There was worse to come. Said he: "Within the past 90 days we have had to increase our estimate of the production ... to fight Japan after Germany is defeated. . . . It will cost us $71 billion a year." This was the first official word to U.S. business that the cutbacks in war production after V-E day have shrunk from the 40% which...