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Shortage of Weapons. In Washington, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces, called a hurried press conference. With chart and pointer, he pointed out the Army's urgent needs: trucks, small bombs, radar, heavy artillery ammunition. In all, he listed shortages in 320 vital categories. General Somervell was angry. He shouted: "If we are going to keep down the cost in American life, then the cost in labor and effort for everyone back here must continue to rise until it strikes its high point at midnight on the day before the enemy's final collapse...
Overall boss of the Army Service Forces and of the greatest military-supply job in history is tough, kinetic Lieut. General Brehon Somervell. Lutes is his director of plans and operations, the man who blueprints the ASF's myriad functions...
...major general: Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (permanent rank, colonel); Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright (brigadier general); Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell (brigadier general). To brigadier general: Lieut. General George C. Kenney (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Mark Clark (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Carl Spaatz (colonel); Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker (lieutenant colonel...
...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...