Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will apparently remain just that. Last week George Patton learned that he will not go to the Pacific. He will return to Europe, resume command of his hard-hitting Third Army, now detailed on occupation work...
...their command post, the whole defense might fall to pieces...
Army Air Forces revealed a little more about LeMay's power by identifying four wings of B-29s in his command, two on Tinian, one each on Saipan and Guam. The young brigadier generals in his all-star backfield are Roger M. Ramey, 58th Wing; Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 73rd; John H. Davies, 313th; Thomas S. Power, 314th...
...under the Army's mammoth post-V-E education program for servicemen & women temporarily stranded in Europe (TIME, Oct. 16). To keep everybody busy, the program includes every phase of education, from vocational training to graduate courses in universities like Cambridge and the Sorbonne. But unit command schools (established by battalions) like St. Germain's form by far the biggest part of the pro gram. By August i there will be one such school for every 1,000 soldiers. Every soldier who is not assigned to urgent duty will be required to attend for two hours...
...face in aviation returned to a new job last week. Twangy, folksy Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 45, who left American Airlines three years ago to help establish the Air Transport Command, settled himself into the newly created job of chairman of the board of American. Vice President Ralph Shepard Damon, who has done the big share of running the line in "C.R.'s" absence, moved up to the presidency to take the place of retiring Insurance Man Alexander Nesbit Kemp...