Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letting the sun come up, the Air Corps could thank the Army's Infantryman Chief of Staff, General George Catlett Marshall. Soon after he got his four stars in September 1939, General Marshall broke Army precedent by appointing an Air Corps officer-bulky Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews-as his G-3 (in charge of operations and training). First flying officer ever to head a General Staff division, Frank Andrews was also notable as the only Air Corps man among the U. S. Army's policy makers, at a time when one of the Army's first...
...before, Infantryman Marshall had given Flier Emmons a good idea of the force he was to command. Reorganizing the Air Corps on a wartime basis, he announced that the four Air Corps wings in the continental U. S. (now commanded by brigadiers) would be expanded to 17 as fast as pilots and planes were ready. Army airmen hoped that the 12,800 fighting craft needed would be ready before the promised delivery date (late in 1942), set out to expand the Air Corps's enlisted strength from 45,000 to 163,000. They did not need to worry about...
...unassigned to a new high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 56, was named. The latter was the hard-bitten infantryman who helped wrestle Narvik from Germany's Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl only to see it yielded due to pressure in the Lowlands...