Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a voice from another world came a report last week from Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright, the man who had to bear the ignominy of surrendering the Philippines...
...Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr., who had scandalized his fellow officers and angered the U.S. public, whose promotion the U.S. Senate had righteously turned down, was last week again an admired U.S. general. The British press idolized him, the U.S. press forgave him and the Senate fell over itself to confirm his nomination to permanent rank of major general...
Able, bespectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley last week took over the biggest field command ever held by a U.S. general. Allied Headquarters announced formation of the Twelfth Army Group in northwestern France with Omar Bradley as its boss. Components of the Twelfth Group: the First Army, which Bradley formerly commanded, and the Third, commanded by Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...succeed Bradley as boss of the First, the War Department pushed up 57-year-old Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges, who fought under Pershing in Mexico, fought in France in World...
Army men learned without surprise last week that Lieut. General Lesley McNair -who served his country for 40 years, fought in two wars, trained an army of some 7,000,000 men and died on a French battlefield at the age of 61-had left an estate...