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Army headquarters in Tokyo put the souvenir business on a bargain-basement basis last week. In the lobby of the Dai Iti Hotel was a conspicuous sign: "War trophies will, be issued here-men must be assigned to GHQ-one sword per man." Somebody with a high regard for accuracy had crossed out the words "men" and had substituted "officers...
While his alarmed subordinates put in a riot call, Editor Wren tried delaying tactics: "Look, I only take orders from my commanding officer, just like you." He had not written the editorial, he said; it came canned from Hearst GHQ. Then call Hearst, demanded the marines, and "we'd like to hear the call." Wren tried, but got only as far as the No. 1 secretary at San Simeon ("Mr. Hearst is too busy to be disturbed"). In the midst of these negotiations, Navy shore patrol men and a police riot squad clumped up the stairs, then went away...
Back in 1941 spruce, precise Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons was the top-ranking U.S. airman. He was commanding general of the GHQ Air Force, later headed the Air Force Combat Command...
Monument by Monument. But dust had not freshly settled over the Cassino abbey before the Allies faced another monument. Allied GHQ in Algiers announced that Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer palace, approximately twelve miles north of the Anzio beachhead, "contained a heavy saturation of Nazis." Five days later, Rome announced that Castel Gandolfo had again been bombed...
...Forces in the European theater went Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, whom many flyers rank No. 1 among American military airmen. Silver-haired, deep-chested Frank Andrews is the soft-spoken father of U.S. air power by virtue of his term (1935-39) as first chief of the GHQ Air Force. He was the ranking and most determined advocate of the now-battle-tested heavy bomber...