Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Butch Jordan shed his football shoes and assumed command of the wrestling room yesterday afternoon. The new coach was greeted by 40 grapplers, including five lettermen from last year's team...
Montgomery remained a gadfly to the end of the war. Eisenhower had great regard for him as a "set piece" tactician, credits him with having predicted Rommel's tactics in Normandy "to the letter." Monty was always asking for more men, more supplies, wider command, but, says Ike, "General Montgomery was acquainted only with the situation in his own sector . . . He deliberately pursued certain eccentricities of behavior, one of which was to separate himself habitually from his staff ... He consistently refused to deal with a staff officer from any headquarters other than his own . . ." Like Patton, Monty frankly admitted...
Geniuses & Gadflies. Crusade in Europe should also be close to the final word on the Montgomery and Patton controversies, if not on the Battle of the Bulge. Patiently and logically, in terms of command and the necessities of logistics, Ike knocks down Monty's argument in favor of a single ground commander in Europe (Monty wanted the job) and a single punch against the Ruhr and Berlin (again by Monty) instead of a broad crossing of the Rhine. The same logic and logistics dispose of Patton's claim that, given the men & supplies he needed, he could have...
...What Shall We Do?" In the main battle, east of Suchow, government troops were forced to retreat. A mechanized group under General Chiu Ching-chuan (whose second in command is the Gimo's younger son, Chiang Wei-kuo) broke up a Communist attempt at encirclement, and helped other Nationalist divisions to fight their way back to the west and south. The well-watered North Kiangsu plain seethed like an ant heap with soldiers on the move, as Government Field Commander General Tu Yu-ming desperately shifted his men over rutted roads and torn-up rail tracks to establish...
...imaginative Minnesotan who writes short stories in his spare time, says: "You don't just sit there and fly. You think." Flying for United, Nelson thought the airlines were overlooking too much contract business. After the war (in which he served as civilian pilot in the Air Transport Command), he and 14 other pilots rented twelve surplus Army planes and later raised $140,000 to form Transocean. Nelson still spends most of his time piloting Transocean planes (his wife, a former United Air Lines stewardess, still occasionally flies with him, as stewardess). On his flights he keeps a sharp...