Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Wainwright was just one week past the Army's compulsory retirement age of 64. Since his return from a Japanese prison camp in 1945, he had done two tours of duty: one as Commanding General of the Eastern Defense Command, the other as Commanding General of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston and the Eighth Service Command at Dallas. Actually, he had spent most of his time touring and speaking on Army promotion projects. Now he could slow down...
...Chief Hirshberg not guilty of informing against the three prisoners who planned to escape, not guilty of hitting four of his accusers, but guilty of beating two of them. Last week, it gave him just about the stiffest sentence it could: ten months in the Navy's Retraining Command (correction school) at Norfolk, Va., to be followed by dishonorable discharge...
...commander in chief of the Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...
...other side of the Plaza San Martin. At the Circulo last week, some 1,200 wives & daughters of Army officers gathered to honor Eva Duarte de Perón. But they did not don furs & feathers out of love for la Señora. This was a command performance arranged by Doña Ines Serpa de Sosa Molina, wife of Peron's Minister of War, to make up for snubs that Señora Peron has received from the stiff-necked military clique. Evita was pleased...
...presidential order last week, Defense Secretary James Forrestal took command of the three top lieutenants who will administer the service arms of his new, unified defense establishment. As expected, they were...