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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...
...momentous conference in Chungking closed last week in deafening silence. For a day and a half Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, had talked with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, with top Chinese generals, with U.S. Lieut. Generals Joseph Stilwell and Brehon Somervell. Then, looking tired, with crow's-feet showing at the corners of his eyes, Lord Louis hurried back to India...
Lord Louis had arrived to iron out the last organizational wrinkles in his new command, to get set for an expected push into Burma or Malaya. That day he talked with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...