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Less than two years ago, sharp, angry Colonel Hugh J. Knerr of the Army Air Forces was in the doghouse. One of the air arm's crack staff officers, Hugh Knerr had been retired for physical disabilities in 1939, had forthwith begun to write and speak. Target of most of his word bombardment: the admirals of the Navy and their limited view of air power. His remedy for this situation: a separate air force, poison to any devout Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Two-Starred Doghouse | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, last week telegraphed the following order to Colonel Hugh J. Knerr, a retired Army airman: "Articles written by you, quotations attributed to you in the writings of others, and the resulting comments and discussions, oral and printed, have been detrimental to the War Department's efforts to foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation between the Army and the Navy, which is essential to the successful prosecution of the war. You are therefore directed to refrain from all public, written and oral comment on the conduct of the war and on questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Mr. Stimson Directs | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Said Mr. Stimson, explaining this stiff directive: "The U.S. Government does not pay the officers of its Army and Navy to fight with each other in time of war. It pays them to fight with the common enemy in full and harmonious cooperation with each other. Colonel Knerr, although retired, is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Mr. Stimson Directs | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Outspoken Colonel Knerr had frequently declared that the Army and Navy were very far from "real and harmonious cooperation," that the Navy was principally to blame, that the Navy was strangling the full use of air power (TIME, June 1). Last week he canceled a lecture at Milwaukee's Town Hall, but later received permission from Secretary Stimson himself to resume his magazine writings and lectures within the limits of proper discretion. Whether these limits, as fixed by the War Department, left him anything to talk or write about, Colonel Knerr had yet to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Mr. Stimson Directs | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...things to be bickering about, air power, the very lifeline of the efforts of both their forces! General Headquarters demanded satisfaction after Pearl Harbor. Let's investigate Colonel Knerr's theme before another large-scale investigation is necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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