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Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...
...succeeds is solemn, starched, 65-year-old Lieut. General Ben Lear. Before the war Ben Lear was a good training officer, made national headlines by marching the rowdy spirits out of a battalion of trainees who went too far in yoo-hooing at girls on a Memphis golf links-where the General happened to be golfing. Lear's new assignment: Deputy Commander to General Ike Eisenhower...
...that was not war: it was only preparation for war, as Krueger's Third Army stood off the armored thrusts of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second in the Louisiana swamp country (September 1941). How good a preparation it had been was apparent last week. Again, Krueger was fighting in marshes and forests. But now on Luzon, main island of the Philippines, the initiative was his. The weight of armor was his. Superiority in manpower (at least locally) was his. Superiority in firepower was emphatically his. In the air and on the surrounding sea the enemy was utterly...
...funny thing about the American people is that they know it is downright naughty to take off your coat in the rain. They know that twelve years of the world's toughest job does things to a man's health. They know that King Lear was a little touched in the head before he defied the elements. They know that winter is coming on. Moscow has a cold climate. Stalin does not like to travel. Let's hope the President stays home...
...Lear, a crack training man who was on the point of retirement for age, took over McNair's command in the interim, later took a desk job. Canadian-born Ben Lear came up from the ranks (enlisting in 1898 for the Spanish-American war). As Army-wise as a rolling caisson, Ben Lear would give uncompromising stability to the ground forces command on the home front...