Word: maline
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flotilla were three cruisers, Georges Leygues, Montcalm, Gloire, and three big destroyers, Le Fantasque, L'Audacieux, Le Malin. They had been anchored at Toulon until last week, along with other survivors of the Battle of Oran Bay. Under terms of the armistice between Germany and France, they had supposedly been disarmed and laid up for the duration of the war. What, then, were they doing...
...Pelot Summerall fixed on 2,000,000 as the proper number for a wartime U. S. Army. His successor, General Douglas MacArthur, in 1931, quoting Washington's advice, upped the figure to 4,000,000, but talked unofficially of up to 10,000,000. When Chief of Staff Malin Craig (1935-39) took over, he decided the MacArthur conception was unpractically high...
Equipment is the Army's sore point. Because until lately the U. S. people planned things that way, their prospective "Army in Being" must fill huge holes in its supplies if it is to be ready to fight on call. As recently as 1938, Chief of Staff Malin Craig figured that $142,000,000 should be enough to plug the biggest gaps (modern field artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rapid-fire rifles, tanks, gas masks, ammunition). For such ordnance the Army last year got almost as much as Malin Craig had begged, in last week...