Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crux of the whole matter, as he saw it, was: many in the Navy were "completely against unity of command and planning . . . Despite protestations to the contrary, I believe that the Navy has opposed unification from the beginning . . . This is no time," he went on sternly, "for 'fancy Dans' who won't hit the line with all they have on every play, unless they can call the signals ... I believe that the public hearing of the grievances of a few officers who will not accept the decisions of the authorities established by law . . . have done infinite harm...
Science Fiction Fan Hoen particularly liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan...
...ever a general had his work cut out him, it was George Churchill Kenney he reported for duty to Douglas MacArthur in Australia. The Allied Air he was to command in the South Pacific seemed hopelessly outnum by the Japanese. MacArthur told flatly that his new command was in combat and that he had no for its top officers. It looked as if MacArthur was right. The next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting...
Lieut. General George H. Brett (now retired), who, says George Kenney, didn't even know how many planes he had in his command when Kenney came to succeed...
Kenney also has some hard things to say about U.S. infantry in New Guinea, and he names units. His regard for MacArthur approaches near-worship, but MacArthur's whole staff is flayed repeatedly. Kenney, who lost his job as chief of the Strategic Air Command last year (he now heads the Air University at Maxwell Field, Ala.), may be too impolitic for peacetime Washington, but as a wartime trouble-shooter he ranks at the top. General Kenney Reports shows...