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...much of the combing-out job is hardheaded, old (68) Major General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, veteran of the Spanish war. Gasser, serving in the Office of Civilian Defense in the early, jittery days of the war, met the civilian clamor for gas masks, fire-fighting apparatus, etc. with a hardboiled: "The military comes first. The civilians will have to get along as best they can." Over a year and a half ago, General Gasser charged into the Army's combing-out job, leading 14 "personnel audit" teams...
...Costs. In the U.S. last March there were more than half a million soldiers physically qualified for combat who were serving as "overhead" troops (administration, maintenance, communications, etc.). By the end of November the number had been cut almost in half. Gasser & Co. could claim credit for 100,000 of them. All but some 10,000 men of those left were in the Air Forces, which gave up 80,000 and insisted that they needed the rest for domestic operations...
...time or another every commanding officer in the U.S. begged Washington to take old man Gasser off his neck, but the high command turned a deaf ear. The war's paramount need was for men who could fight, and they had to be dug up, no matter what it cost. In December, the cry for fighting men became more insistent. The Rhine Valley offensive had cost Eisenhower 55,000 more men than he could immediately replace. With rifle strength in many divisions cut a third to a half, Eisenhower shouted for reinforcements. The Ardennes breakthrough made his appeal more...
...Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...
...Erlanger is a small, earnest, 70-year-old Johns Hopkins graduate who was professor of physiology at St. Louis' Washington University for 34 years. Last July he became professor emeritus, but he goes right on teaching and experimenting. Dr. Gasser, 56, is the tall, thin physiologist who has headed the Rockefeller Institute since 1935 (TIME, July 22, 1935). He also is a Hopkins man, was also a Washington University teacher...