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...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...
When, at the end of his tour as GHQ Air Force commander in 1939, he reverted to his regular rank of colonel and was shipped off to Texas, most people in the Army thought that he had been sent to Coventry for his persistence. Soon after Chief of Staff George C. Marshall assumed command of the Army, he spotted Andy Andrews for an over-all command. The record shows that Colonel Andrews was soon promoted to Brigadier General once more, assigned to the General Stafr in charge of G-3 (operations & training) for the expanding Army. That experience stands...