Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of promotions of 26 general officers. They will help boss an army, ground and air, that is being increased from 227,000 to 1,400,000 in one year. Heading the list as No. 1 U. S. flying officer was West Pointer Delos Carleton Emmons, commander of the GHQ Air Force and until last week "Hap" Arnold's subordinate. George Marshall's list gave Delos Emmons the rank of lieutenant general, shared only by the commanders of the U. S.'s four field armies. No airman had ever flown to such a military altitude...
...glass-enclosed bridge looking down on a huge map at the R. A. F.'s Fighter Command GHQ, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding last week kept tabs on these three aerial barriers. Below on the action grid, intelligence officers in earphones sat like croupiers raking little planes back & forth across squares ruled on the map, following the progress of air battles. This efficient control system was the centre of a complicated network of telephones, teletypewriters and visual signals which with extraordinary speed coordinated airfields all over Britain. In from observer posts on the coasts to various...
...appointed Chief of Staff, he set the conservatives of the Army back on their heels by picking for G-3 the first Air Corps officer ever to head a General Staff division: deep-chested, friendly Frank Maxwell Andrews. Onetime cavalryman, Frank Andrews was the first head of the GHQ Air Force as temporary Major General, went back to a colonelcy when his tour of duty was over, came back as a permanent brigadier general of the line. A top-flight pilot at 56, Frank Andrews still flies his own plane, pokes his iron-grey head into thick weather along with...
...Walker innocently sent a memorandum on the subject to British GHQ. Because he suggested that the curved plate, if equipped with a handle, might also make an entrenching tool, his memo came to rest in the Munitions Ministry's office of Trench Warfare Supplies. There it might have remained until the End of Wars had not his friend, the late Arthur Asquith, discovered it and showed it to Winston Churchill. Impressed, War Lord Churchill offered Walker the post of Expert in Light Armour to the Forces. Dr. Walker declined. "As I remembered that it had taken two years...
...Corps unit, concentrating all defensive aircraft (such as pursuit ships to drive off enemy bombers), anti-aircraft batteries, ground warning systems, in a single, centralized command. Hitherto these defensive functions have been scattered among Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, the Air Corps's General Headquarters Air Force. Now GHQ Air Force can be solely what it was intended to be-a powerful, offensive striking arm for attack on enemy centres...