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...time the shifts were made. Combat men have long griped about burly soldiers smashing baggage in Iceland, tending bar in PXs in Brisbane, have resented being equipped by healthy young quartermasters who had never heard a shot fired in anger. Plenty of the "rear-echelon commandos" resented their own lot, too, were ready for a chance at battle...
...near the ceiling) has published a new book of cartoons. His latest collection is called Who's In Charge Here? (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), and its first printing of 28,500 was already sold out last week. The work includes no supernaturally levitated figures, but in one drawing an echelon of six flying fish completes a bank-turn above their tank in a pet store. The proprietor explains to a customer: "We don't sell them singly, Madam. It breaks up the formation...
Chennault has lavished great personal affection and care upon a group of key young men: Colonel Clinton ("Casey") Vincent, 29, commander of the forward echelon; David L. ("Tex&") Hill, formerly an A.V.G. ace, now a lieutenant colonel, commander of the forward fighters; Lieut...
...India. To a friend one of the pilots of a 7th Group Liberator wrote: "The total weight of my plane was over 60,000 Ib. [standard maximum, 56,000]. I believe that was the first time an air unit ever moved with all its equipment in its air echelon alone" (i.e., with enough equipment aboard to begin fighting...
...rank of commodore the Navy last week raised four captains commanding forces whose size warrants a flag officer but no admiral: Oscar Smith of Special Task Force No. 1; Lee Payne Johnson of the Atlantic Fleet's rear echelon; South Pacific Amphibious Force's transport commander, Lawrence F. Reifsnider; Robert Grimes Coman of the Southwest Pacific's Service Force. Like their Army counterparts, brigadier generals, commodores will wear one star. Like all task-force men, their chances of seeing action are never...