Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clue that invasion might be near was in the office of Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the Army Service Forces. His orders had been to procure and ship more than 100,000 items needed for the Army's pre-invasion stockpile, from shoelaces to tanks. By last week all but 79 of the items were stockpiled where they belonged. The rest were on the way and the mad supply rush was easing...
James H. Graham, onetime engineering professor at the University of Kentucky, had no idea that his one-page memo would launch a $134,000,000 rumpus. An old friend and $1-a-year assistant to the U.S. Army Service Force's Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Mr. Graham had been asked to figure out a quick, sure way to supply the Alaska Highway with oil and high-octane gas. Engineer Graham studied maps and mulled over the problem at intervals for two months in the spring of 1942. Then he suggested: Why not develop the Canadian oil resources...
Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...
Heading the U.S. delegation were the joint chiefs of staff: Admiral Leahy, General Marshall with a party of 15 officers, the Navy's Admiral King with six, Air Forces General Hap Arnold with eleven. For the Service Forces, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell brought a staff of nine. Army, Navy, Air had separate groups. General Eisenhower came up from Algiers; Lieut. General Stilwell and Major General Chennault flew in from China...
...World War I friend of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Dean Graham rushed to Washington after Pearl Harbor as a dollar-a-year man. He got a desk just out side the General's door. His advice was mostly given in casual chats after hours...