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...eyed, unsmiling man, standing in the long queue. Slowly and inconspicuously he moved along with the other 3,500 veterans waiting to buy surplus property at Baltimore's Holabird Signal Corps depot. But the sharp-eyed man was taking plenty of notice of them. Major General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, new War Assets Administrator, was out to get firsthand information on what was wrong with a WAA sale...
Regional Directors of WAA all over the country braced themselves for the storm. It came. In a blistering letter General Littlejohn said that mismanaged sales, like the one at Holabird, had better not happen again. Chances are they...
Into the job went another Army man, Major General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, who had won a Distinguished Service Medal for "marked aggressiveness" in solving "seemingly insurmountable problems." He would need all his aggressiveness to keep his new job from becoming an insurmountable problem, complicated as it was by the investigations of five congressional committees. In the face of this, Washington politicos were most impressed by Littlejohn's courage in taking on the thankless job. Quipped one: "I admire his guts, but not his judgment...
...K.P.s there is a single, better reason for the award: waste-hating Quartermaster Littlejohn abolished the peeling of potatoes...
...clothing boss of the Quartermaster General's Staff in Washington in 1940, when official plans concerned less than a million men, Robert Littlejohn privately planned and organized for twice that number. Sent to Britain a year ago, he pumped reverse Lend-Lease to get 40% of his supplies from the British. Littlejohn's anti-waste campaign has cut shipping space 12% without reducing rations. All the food and clothing for General Eisenhower's forces were his responsibility...