Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of Manila had just begun; its deepening pall was still only a thin haze over the city. On the north side of the town, where troops of the 37th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were still hunting out Jap snipers, a command car whisked across the city limits, pulled up near a command post. Within a few minutes the word had gone down to the lowest ranks; "It's MacArthur!" Douglas MacArthur had lost no time getting back to the capital he had evacuated on Christmas Eve 1941, after declaring it an open city to save it from...
Without Oxygen. U.S. Senators, who usually get no better than a No. 3 priority, heard the official version of Blaze's ride last week. The Air Transport Command's able Major General Harold L. George did his frank best by laying before the Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee a carefully detailed account of the animal's voyage by Army aircraft from England to California. Senators noted that the air arms of both the Army and Marine Corps had done their best by Elliott...
Anna Boettiger never once mentioned a priority. But nothing moves on A.T.C. without a priority, and Colonel Ray W. Ireland, who took her call, knew what to do. Blaze got his No. 1-and before the week was out, the hardworking, globe-girdling Air Transport Command was right in the middle of the kind of news it does not like to make...
...many fronts is reflected in the six-fold expansion of facilities in the New England area for convalescence and rehabilitation of wounded war veterans. Thus Norman W. Fradd, Director of Physical Education, on leave of absence from Harvard, and now civilian consultant to the First Service Command, described the inauguration on February 5 of the new 6,000-bed reconditioning base hospital at Camp Edwards...
...this enlarged recondition- ing program, the Army has built extensive facilities at its new Camp Edwards base. Several playing fields, an enclosed sports arena, a swimming pool, and 16 remedial gymnasiums are among the many features of the new plant. This base serves only casualties from the First Service Command. The Navy, the Marines, and the Army Air Corps maintain separate facilities for their wounded...