Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most remarkable feats of tactical support was accomplished by flyers of Brigadier General Otto P. Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should...
...nuisance value. Last week, for the second time, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher took the famed fast carrier Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around Tokyo. This time coordination with Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay's 21st Bomber Command was closer: hot on the vapor trails of Mitscher's planes came more than 200 B-29s with more than 1,000 tons of bombs to batter the Tokyo area and secondary targets, further isolating the battlefield...
...steaming jungles and sun-baked atolls. All through this bitter night the Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area between the beach and the airfield. Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many men who had been only wounded were killed. The command post of one of the assault battalions got a direct hit which killed several officers. An artillery battalion based near the beach had twelve men killed. One group of medical corpsmen was reduced from 28 to 11; the corpsmen were taking it, as usual...
...General Eduardo Gomes. Ascetic Bachelor Gomes, an oldtime Army man, neither smokes nor drinks. As a survivor of the bloody, gallant, but unsuccessful 1922 revolt, he is a legendary figure in Brazil. He helped to put Vargas in power in the successful revolution of 1930. Later, Vargas appointed him commander of Brazil's Second Air Zone. Impeccably honest and inherently democratic, Air Chief Gomes later criticized the Vargas regime, was subsequently relieved of his field command, assigned to a Rio desk job. His candidacy is supported by most of Brazil's political "outs," the majority of the newspapers...
...Dawn broke clear on a calm sea black with ships: 800 craft under Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, the high-domed, hard-driving conqueror of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Saipan. With Turner on the bridge of his command ship was Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Fleet Marine Force. Loaded on the surrounding transports were the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps: the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions...