Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other great factor: "Failure of the enemy to make the most of the situation." The German High Command-almost incredibly, but on the best of evidence-had no overall strategic plan. Wrangling between Hitler and his generals, lack of coordination between the Axis powers had wrecked what might have been a conquest of the world. Japan's strategic plan, its climax an invasion of the Aleutians, bombardment of the U.S. Northwest and seizure of critical areas, had "initially failed when she missed the opportunity of landing troops on Hawaii." George Marshall made it crystal clear that...
...Told. The report answered some questions which the Allied High Command had declined to discuss during wartime. Items...
...other U.S. general has got himself in so much hot water or made so many legends in this war as flamboyant George S. Patton Jr. Last week, as he was banished to the command of a phantom Fifteenth Army (see FOREIGN NEWS), he landed in the middle of another. The background...
Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...
Bennett, the apple of Old Henry's eye, has long been second in command of the company. Young Henry removed "the little giant" from his potent position as boss of Ford's labor & industrial relations. Then, in two days, he demoted or fired nearly a dozen Bennett-men. Mr. Bennett would continue as a director of the com pany, but from now on. said Young Hen ry, in unmistakable tones, everyone would be responsible ''directly...