Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief of Staff, MacArthur blasted the proposal of economy-minded Congressmen to amalgamate the Army & Navy in one department ("Pass this bill and every potential enemy of the U.S. will rejoice"). He established the first self-contained air striking force in U.S. history (the GHQ Air Force), worked out the present four-Army system of U.S. continental defense to be superimposed on the old nine Army corps areas...
...eight-week battle maneuvers in the Carolinas. Canny Hugh Drum had had his test postponed from summer to fall to give more training. From afar he had a chance to scout the Louisiana battle. Now in October the Army's center of self-criticism-General McNair's GHQ staff-settles down in the Carolinas to see what they will...
...officers of the Second and Third Armies, resting from their far from sham labors in far-flung sham battle, the GHQ's Chief of Staff spoke pregnant words. Said Lieut. General Lesley James McNair: "There can be no excuse for another Guadalajara...
Said Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, GHQ Chief of Staff, with characteristic frankness: "A lot of these Generals who want to fire their Chiefs of Staff ought to fire themselves. We're going to start at the top and work down. We've got some bum Generals, and maybe I'm one of them, but we're going to weed them out. Have we the bright young Majors and Captains to replace them...
First purpose of the new artillery is to destroy tanks, and last week's show was put on by GHQ's Provisional Tank Destroyer Battalion, three weeks after it was organized at Ft. George G. Meade...