Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain office in the Munitions Building come reports of military operations in all theaters of combat. Every day he discusses the progress of the war with his chief and fellow V.M.I, alumnus, General George Catlett Marshall. About three times a week he talks over grand strategy with Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's war effort coordinator. (General Eisenhower used to confer secretly with the President himself.) It is up to General Handy and his Division to make plans for U.S. moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army...
...Navy's Admiral Ernest Joseph King and the Army's General George Catlett Marshall knew that such a force would have assembled only for a major blow. The question was: Where? They had to apply what Admiral King last week called his doctrine of "calculated risk," placing the bulk of what they had where the Jap seemed most likely to strike, where the U.S. stood to win or lose the most. They calculated the risks and chose Midway. They put their own forces on the move. Then they waited. On June 3, at 9 a.m., P.W.T., the waiting...
Back to Washington, from their mystery mission in London, flew Harry Hopkins and General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff. What they had to say they said only to President Roosevelt...
...promise of action. In this week of deepest need, the promise seemed to come from London. At No. 10 Downing St., at the War Office, at the U.S. Embassy abruptly appeared Harry Hopkins, the man who more than any other acts and speaks for President Roosevelt, and General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff. In the U.S. and Britain, anxious millions forthwith believed what they wanted to be told: that their forces were about to take the offensive and open a second front in Europe...
Dream. This united High Command fulfills a dream of General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff. As a member of "Black Jack" Pershing's staff in World War I, General Marshall saw the lamentable results of the Allies' failure to cooperate. As a peacetime soldier without glory in his own country, he knew, as other military men knew, that effective joint military action depends on effective joint command...