Word: gruenther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometime partner) also rated with Expert Culbertson as "the best player on the Supreme Court or any other." Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley was acknowledged "an outstanding strategist; he takes more chances than Eisenhower." Tops on Culbertson's list of Government players: Major General A. M. Gruenther, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Service. Forrestal and Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...plan for closer cooperation was sponsored by Vice Admiral Harry Wilbur Hill, veteran of combined amphibious operations; Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, a top planner from SHAEF; Brigadier General Truman Hempel Landon, a bombing expert, and Donald S. Russell, Assistant Secretary of State...
...Gruenther, were in effect professors of invasion, learned in amphibious assault, airborne operations, tank destruction, battle discipline...
...hurry, Al Gruenther entered West Point in 1917, graduated eleven days before the Armistice with the "joker" class which then had to go back to school after it had been commissioned'. Always an exciting fellow, he was the cause of his editor-father's failure to get out the Platte Center, Neb. newspaper the week he was born...