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...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...
Like his boss, General George Catlett Marshall, General Lee is not a West Pointer. He joined the Coast Artillery as a second lieutenant in 1909, after graduating as a civil engineer from the University of Missouri. (One of his contemporaries at Missouri was War Production Administrator Donald Nelson.) He served with the Field Artillery in World War I, got the Distinguished Service Medal in 1922. After the war he commanded a battalion in the Philippines...