Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Service Force was born during a visit by General George Catlett Marshall to Prime Minister Churchill at Chequers in 1942, and a glamorous career was laid out for it. It was to be used in a suicide raid on hydroelectric plants in Norway. Later its mission was changed to simultaneous paratroop raids on key power plants scattered through Europe. Another gleam in the planners' eyes: a parachute raid on Berchtesgaden to kill Adolf Hitler...
Irving Berlin, back from a four-month tour of Italy with This Is The Army, reported that some 300,000 troops had seen the show, said he had composed a new song (There Are No Wings On A Foxhole*). He added that General George Catlett Marshall was "very pleased" with this infantry ditty. Excerpts...
...work at Fort Benning caught the attention of able young Lieut. Colonel George Catlett Marshall; twelve years later General Marshall picked Omar Bradley to convert the Infantry School at the fort from a peaceful little unit of 300 to 400 students into a roaring mass-production center capable of handling 14,000 officer candidates at a time. Bradley did the job without raising his voice. Later he took over and trained the 82nd and 28th Divisions for combat. In February 1943, when things were not going too well in Tunisia, General Marshall sent Omar Bradley over...
...armed the Republic. He had kept faith with the people. In a general's uniform, he stood for the civilian substance of this democratic society. Civis Americanus, he had gained the world's undivided respect. In the name of the soldiers who had died, General George Catlett Marshall was entitled to accept his own nation's gratitude...
...immediate future of the No. 1 U.S. soldier was settled at Teheran. General George Catlett Marshall will remain in Washington as Chief of Staff...