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...much about island warfare. The new tactics are to surround the Jap bases in overwhelming force and in combined operation to squeeze the life out of them. Though the capture of Munda was somewhat behind schedule, the Japs were left no secondary retreats, would soon be cleaned up. Gen eral Vandegrift, with his spearhead of Amphibious Marines, looked forward to future operations conducted by "all of us, a highly cooperative team...
...long last the French leaders in Algiers completed a formula for unity.. The final, seemingly immovable obstacle between General Charles de Gaulle and Gen eral Henri Giraud had been the issue of Army control and reorganization. Now the Committee of Liberation pushed aside the obstacle...
...Other V.M.I, alumni: Lieut. General George H. Brett, head of the Caribbean Defense Com mand; Major General Thomas T. Handy, Chief of the General Staff's Operations Division; Major General William P. Upshur, Commanding Gen eral of the Marines' Department of the Pacific; four more major generals; 18 brigadiers. Lieut. General Patton started at V.M.I., finished at West Point...
...Bureau was transferred in 1939 from the Treasury to the Executive Office of the President, this is true. But it is only the starting point, the excuse, for Harold Smith's real assignment. If he had the title that fits his job, he would be called Gen eral Manager of the U.S. Government...
...said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep I'll be ready for war again." But his doctors thought that the first U.S. lieutenant gen eral to be injured in World War II would be out of action for several weeks...