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Fortnight ago General H. H. Arnold and Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Dill held secret conference with Chungking officials, flew to New Delhi with China's General Ho Ying-chin. Announcing the Chungking conference, the War Department had said: "The fullest possible coordination [of British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell...
...General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Lieut. Generals Henry H. Arnold and Brehon B. Somervell, Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Air Vice Marshal Inglis and Lend-Lease Administrator W. Averell Harriman...
...entourage was equally impressive: Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Chief of Britain's Naval Staff; General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff; Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of the Commandos; Field Marshal Sir John Dill; Lieut. General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander in Chief of the Middle East; Major General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army (see p. 26); Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder...
...history of the Step Test begins back in 1927 in the Fatigue Lab. There Dr. Arlie V. Bock, head of the Hygiene Department, and Dr. David B. Dill, now director of the Fatigue Lab, with their co-workers and under the leadership of the late Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, former director of the Lab, began the study of the normal human being's reactions to muscular exercise. They were aiming to use their findings principally in connection with industrial fatigue...
Always there were long, blue, green and pink reports from the Combined Chiefs of Staff?the Allies' nearest equivalent of a global command, which General Marshall was principally responsible for organizing last February. Usually these reports were from Britain's Sir John Dill or his subordinates, or from the U.S. Navy's Admiral Ernest Joseph King, if some matter touching the interlocked U.S. and British navies had come up. If there were references to the Russians or the Chinese, who consult only the C.C.S., they usually came through U.S. or British channels...