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...three Soviet flyers in a single-engine A.N.T. 25 flew the polar route from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., where they were received by the Army air base commandant, Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall. A month later another A.N.T. 25 repeated the crossing, landed in a field near San Jacinto, Calif...
...cubbed on the Harrisburg Patriot, edited by his father, was a United Press correspondent in Washington before he joined TIME as a Washington reporter in 1942. He covered the China-Burma-India. Southwest Pacific and European theaters in World War II, later served as military aide to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army. He was back in civvies only a short time when General Marshall, just retired, called him back to duty as an aide on his special presidential mission to China. Back on the job for TIME-LIFE. Shepley, as head of the Washington bureau...
...impressions of Soldier Dwight Eisenhower: "He learned a lot during the war, but strategy, tactics and command were never his strong points." Ike was a great overall coordinator, but "perhaps his greatest asset was a greater share of luck than most of us receive in life." Of George Catlett Marshall: "A big man and a very great gentleman," who did not "impress me by the ability of his brain." Of Douglas MacArthur: "The greatest general of the last war [with] a far greater strategic grasp than Marshall...
...There he handled the movements of 270,000 men so brilliantly that the rival Second Army was "annihilated" (except George Patton, who turned up with a force of Second Army tanks in Eisenhower's rear). This stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made him assistant chief of war plans, then chief, then ordered Ike to draw up an organization plan for the European Theater. So well was it drawn that, on Marshall's urging, Franklin...
Retired General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 75, who winters in North Carolina and summers in Virginia, was scheduled this week to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Service for "meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thought, peace through justice...