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Army & Navy patrol planes soared over the blue waters, looking for the plane's wreckage and, more hopefully, for yellow rubber life rafts which might be carrying Rickenbacker, his aides and crew. But in Honolulu, Army GHQ was gloomy...
...wrote the news of the last war have told me that GHQ (in France) placed a limousine at the disposal of each correspondent. . . . Here in the Port Moresby area we have two pick-up trucks and one sedan for about 20 Australian and American correspondents and photographers...
...ground chief, General McNair, formerly chief of GHQ staff, will have plenty of reason to exercise his habit of working 18 hours...
Since every district ordnance office can sign contracts up to $5,000,000 (and any number of them) without GHQ approval, the 13 chiefs can mobilize a lot of idle plants if they want to. Not planes and tanks, but the hundreds of supply items needed for Army arsenals, armories and the Aberdeen Proving Ground make up most of their orders. The new scheme is designed less to promote subcontracting than to find more and smaller prime contractors for these simpler products. But in the course of meeting and coaching the little men in its district, each civilian ordnance staff...
...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...