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Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major Gen eral Keller E. Rockey, commander of the III Amphibious Corps, radioed a message to the U.S. commander in chief in China, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer...
...also impugned the policies and orders of his Supreme Commander, Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, who promptly ordered Patton to retract and sent his political adviser, Robert D. Murphy, to Bavaria to investigate Patton's administration...
...with replacement parts. In the hard, fast dash across France, motors were worn to a mass of rattling hardware. Replacements arrived, but too slowly. Then Army Service Forces made a deal that produced replacements in France. Within a month after liberation Gnome & Rhone was rebuilding Continental tank motors; Gen eral Motors France was turning out motors for G.M.'s own famed "Six by Six" truck, the workhorse of the Army. Citroen, which had been given a black eye for collaboration, pitched in. Even Renault, whose Paris plant had several times been solemnly pronounced "destroyed" by bombs, had plenty...
...maintain training and supply in the U.S., the War Department plans to get down to a strength of 7,000,000 by year's end. Some 400,000 of these will be employed as occupation troops, serving in the newly activated Fifteenth Army of Lieut. Gen eral Leonard T. Gerow...
...months after V-E day, WPB hopes that there will be enough materials and manpower available so that the gen eral run of industries can reconvert as they please, let supply and demand govern output...