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...West Point classmates ('20) as a candidate for stars while his second lieutenant's gold bars were still shiny. After routine duty in the coast artillery in the U.S. and the Philippines, he taught philosophy at West Point in 1934, went on to Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1936. Scholarly, warm, modest, he quickly earned a name for getting things done, and in May 1941 Major Lemnitzer was assigned to the War Department's War Plans Division. He was a brigadier general in September 1942, when he joined General Dwight Eisenhower...
Subs & Surrenders. As a Torch planner, "General Lem" joined the secret party, led by General Mark Clark, that slipped into North Africa by submarine in 1942, to find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which...
...deputy chief of staff of the 15th Army Group, and commanding general of the U.S. contingent of that international force in Italy, he played a role in the negotiations with Premier Pietro Badoglio that led to Italy's capitulation in 1943. Later, dressed as a civilian (with a dachshund in tow), he managed the Allied discussions in Switzerland that preceded the German High Command's surrender in Italy and Southern Austria...
...quiet way, Far East Military Expert Lemnitzer helped build Japan's postwar defense forces, was a key figure in the successful diplomatic byplay that enabled the U.S. to keep strategic Okinawa in the face of growing local opposition. Says one Army general: "What Dulles was in civilian clothes to the Far East, Lemnitzer was in a uniform...
...Other U.S. officers on the famed secret submarine trip: Colonel (later Brigadier General) Archelaus L. Hamblen, shipping and supply expert; Captain (now Admiral) Jerauld Wright, Navy liaison man on Torch, now commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Colonel Julius C. Holmes, head of Torch's Civil Affairs branch, now the Secretary of State's special assistant for NATO. General Clark, retired, is president of The Citadel...