Word: gruenther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...
...close student of his profession and of international affairs, tall, spare Al Wedem was marked out early in his career as a topflight staff officer.* like such contemporary Army "brains" as "Beetle" Smith and Al Gruenther (now Eisenhower's chief of staff), and like George Marshall. Graduating from West Point too late for World War I, Wedemeyer in 1936 was sent to study blitzkrieg tactics at the German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from...
...three weeks, accompanied by Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, his chief of staff, he had covered twelve capitals of Europe. On the basis of that survey, he would undertake to answer the questioning going on in the U.S. The main questions were two. Can Western Europe be defended? Has Europe the heart to fight...
...reporter ferreting through the Pentagon files found that 50 sons of U.S. Army generals are now fighting in the Korean war. Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther has two fighting sons. Major Generals Thomas F. Hickey and Albert C. Smith each has one. Lieut. Hobart R. Gay Jr. is the jet-pilot son of Major General Hobart R. Gay, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in Korea; Captain Sam Walker is the son of the late General Walton H. Walker. Those who have lost sons in action so far: Lieut. General Thomas B. Larkin, Brigadier Generals David H. Blakelock, John Magruder...
CHARLES L. BOLTE, 55, ground-forces specialist, to Gruenther's old job of Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans; three stars...