Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton order such a desperate undertaking? One of the prisoners at Hammelburg was Patton's son-in-law, Lieut. Colonel John K. Waters, who was badly wounded in the fracas. Patton, denying that he even knew Waters was there when he launched the operation, displayed his personal diary to prove it; his motive, he said, was concern for all Allied prisoners. Some men (including Hearst Correspondent Austen Lake, who was with the Third Army at the time and told the story last week) wondered if Patton should not have shown more concern for his own soldiers. Major Baum, hospitalized...
When Britain, helping out the Dutch, sent Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison to Batavia rioting broke out on Java. The islands had Queen Wilhelmina's promise of eventual, postwar "partnership" in a Netherlands Commonwealth. But nationalists cried that the time was ripe for something more. They served notice on General Christison: if British and Indian occupation forces brought along any Dutch troops, the Dutch would be shot...
...Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...
...independence, thirsted for more. In the forlorn hope of escaping renewed colonial rule, they went on a rousing rampage. In Saigon they shot up homes, burned the market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...
Rule or Chaos. This occupation had to be organized in tearing haste. Lieut. General John R. Hodge and the military governor, Major General Archibald V. Arnold, had to staff it with men who, like themselves, are combat officers and not proconsuls. They are shorthanded-Arnold has only 109 men for the whole military government. Men already punchy from combat (and anxious to go home) are driving themselves 15 hours a day and more, trying to get a country of 25 million people rolling again. Before it is done, the job will take experts...