Word: fifteenths
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Stepchild's Father. No shrinking violet by nature, "Nate" Twining had nevertheless long been one of the comparative unknowns of the air wars until he turned up in the B-29 spotlight. With some reason, he and the men of his old Fifteenth, overshadowed in the news by the Britain-based Eighth (now on the way to the Pacific), had called themselves "The Forgotten Air Force...
Organized in North Africa and based in southern Italy, the Fifteenth was originally designed to pace a Balkan invasion. That project was dropped before Twining had had his B-17s settled in Italy...
...Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, commander of the Fifteenth Army. Up to this week General Gerow's occupation army consisted mostly of himself and a headquarters staff. The Fifteenth will be fleshed out gradually from units already in Europe or to be sent there. Estimated "permanent" strength of the occupation force...
...Lucius Clay as his deputy and administrative chief of staff; the State Department's Robert Murphy as political adviser (with sharp-eyed Ivone Kirkpatrick his counterpart for Britain, and purge-trial prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky for the Russians); and Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow as commander of the U.S. Fifteenth (occupation) Army. While these top four will probably stay in Berlin, American administrative headquarters will be located within the U.S. zone, probably at Frankfurt...
...deploy effectively against Japan," and to 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...