Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower echelons, the chains of command are plaited and interknotted beyond a lay man's ability to untangle them...
...last week came news which showed that the Pacific command, complicated as it is, can work smoothly...
...Command by Function. Actually, the Pacific command situation had settled considerably since its inception. At first, it was an operation divided by geographical lines. By now it was a command by function: the Navy transports the troops and has command of them while at sea, General MacArthur takes over the minute they land on the beaches...
...Airmen. Soon the Pacific command will be a full-fledged trinity. Ever since November 1944 the 21st Bomber Command, now bossed by tough, cigar-smoking Major General Curtis LeMay, has been an independent unit in the Pacific. It is a part of the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by General "Hap" Arnold and responsible only...
Divided as it is, the Pacific command has not perceptibly slowed up the war against Japan. There is no reason now to suppose that it ever will...