Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Infantryman Gerow reported to Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall for his new detail, the greeting was brief. General Marshall handed him a sheaf of papers to which was clipped the little red tag meaning "Urgent." Said Marshall, "You'd better go to work right...
...reservists not already called up. active duty is just around the corner of 1940. Next January, 30,000 more will be called to the colors, and by June, when Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall hopes to have 1,200,000 men in uniform, a total of 55,000 reservists will have hung up their civvies for a year to work in khaki...
Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall last August discussed a subject which Army men seldom mention in public : the difficulties of defending the Panama Canal...
Grisolia. During October U. S. Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall had entertained two batches of Latin-American military missions, taken them on tours of arsenals and munitions plants, shown them U. S. equipment at work or in blueprints, endeavored to impress them with...
...letting the sun come up, the Air Corps could thank the Army's Infantryman Chief of Staff, General George Catlett Marshall. Soon after he got his four stars in September 1939, General Marshall broke Army precedent by appointing an Air Corps officer-bulky Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews-as his G-3 (in charge of operations and training). First flying officer ever to head a General Staff division, Frank Andrews was also notable as the only Air Corps man among the U. S. Army's policy makers, at a time when one of the Army's first...