Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Army, in positions at right angle to the British, held quiet. The Fifth was waiting for its new commander, rasp-voiced Texan Lieut. General Lucian King Truscott Jr., who last week succeeded Lieut. General Mark Clark, now commander of the Allied armies in Italy. But a new commander would not necessarily mean a swift drive to the north. Mark Clark's armies were short of men; the Allied push, and almost all of its European pushing power, was in France...
...miserable weeks, while U.S. ground forces on Leyte were half submerged in a sea of mud, the Sixth Army's leathery 63-year-old commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had been planning to break the Philippine stalemate. As part of his plan he had insisted that U.S. patrols must keep the initiative: mud or no mud, they must keep the enemy off balance. Said Krueger: "I asked my troops to do the impossible and they did it." The next phase of Krueger's plan required the 7th and 32nd Divisions to step up their pres sure...
...Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon, commander of the new Air Force (of Army and Navy bombers), passed up the temptation to make a Pearl Harbor anniversary attack on Tokyo with his B-29s.* But the heart of the enemy's homeland was devastated that day far more effectively than the available Superforts could have done it. An earthquake shook Japan at 1149 and 1153 p.m., Tokyo time...
Because the battle lines were everywhere, all Athens was a no man's land in which few unarmed civilians dared to venture. One chilly dawn British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie ordered tanks to take the ELAS and KKE (Greek Communist Party) headquarters on Constitution Square. A Sherman tank smashed into one building; airborne troops entered the other with the aid of new plastic explosives. The committees were captured, but not communist Secretary George Siantos...
They heard this straight from the mouth of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, hard-bitten boss of the Army Service Forces, who gravely noted that current production of munitions is lagging behind consumption (see U.S. AT WAR). There was worse to come. Said he: "Within the past 90 days we have had to increase our estimate of the production ... to fight Japan after Germany is defeated. . . . It will cost us $71 billion a year." This was the first official word to U.S. business that the cutbacks in war production after V-E day have shrunk from the 40% which...