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...joint miracle, wrought by many hands. The planning and overseeing of it was in large part a Washington job, by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell's Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...
...Wilson was also the man in WPB that the Army & Navy went to, in order to get things done. He absorbed some of the Army & Navy's impatience at the growing talk of peace production when the battlefronts were short of many needed items. Like Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell and others in the Army, Wilson had underestimated the strength of the national feeling that the European phase of the war is about over, that it is high time to think of peacetime readjustments...
...Lieut. General Brehon Somervell authorized the Canol project without consulting the Navy (or any other department), spent $134,000,000 on it, used up some 200,000 tons of scarce material, wasted manpower and supplies when "four tankers . . . could have carried in one trip more 100-octane gasoline, motor gasoline and fuel oil than would be produced by the entire Canol project by Jan. 1, 1945. . . all because of a disintegrated military setup under which coordination cannot be compelled...
...Germans had noted allied landing boats piling up in Mediteranean harbors, had nervously trumpeted their findings to the world. Then distinguished visitors began arriving in Italy for front-row seats-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Supply Chief Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, announced he had moved his headquarters to Italy from North Africa...
Just before taking off for Europe last week, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell fired the question at 300 top-ranking officers of his Army Service Forces, gathered at Fort Leonard Wood. For them the question was rhetorical: the A.S.F. already knows most of the answers. But for U.S. soldiers and their kin what Somervell had to say next was a cold draft on many warm hopes...