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...Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, (weight: 224 lbs.) Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington, who was Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...
...John Maitland Brewer Churchill, Jr. '47 replaces Philip M. Stern '47 as President as the result of elections held Sunday evening. Stern, who will graduate on June 28, has held the position since February 9 of this year. Churchill, absent from the College this term, served for a short time after his election to the Network in August 1943 as Business Manager, and has been Technical Director since July...
Alexander filled the post left vacant by burly General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, who will go to Washington as head of the British Joint Staff Mission (succeeding the late great Field Marshal Sir John Dill). Into Alexander's place, as commander of the Fifteenth Army Group in Italy, stepped lanky Mark Clark...
...British forces were small. They were a section of the newly formed Land Forces of the Adriatic under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Mediterranean command; included paratroopers, commandos, infantrymen, engineers and an R.A.F. regiment. The two Greek guerrilla forces -E.D.E.S. and E.L.A.S. -had promised cooperation. Local commander was the 26-year-old Earl Jellicoe, son of the British commander at Jutland in World War I. Young Jellicoe went in as a major, was promoted to a lieutenant colonel four days later...
...Western Italy, Italian partisans, officially recognized and directed by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, organized under the name Italia Combatte (Italy Fights), had virtually cleared the Germans out of Liguria. They were reported actually running most of the railroads, credited with an amazing job of protecting power plants and similar installations from the Nazis...