Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, disciple of unified command, welded units of the R.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces into a single air force. Its commander:purse-mouthed, able Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, onetime chief of R.A.F.'s Bomber Command...
...Marshal Peirse's deputy, studious Major General George E. Stratemeyer, was Chief of Staff for General "Hap" Arnold before going to field duty in India last summer. There General Stratemeyer commanded both Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson's Tenth Air Force (India) and Chennault's famed Fourteenth (China...
Seydlitz had a story to tell: On Nov. 19, 1942 the Red trap was sprung on the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Its ambitious commander, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, at once asked Hitler's permission to fall back from the untenable positions on the windswept steppe. On Nov. 20, Hitler called an emergency conference at his headquarters, 1 ,400 miles away...
Fifty Tons a Minute. So far, the R.A.F. can claim the lion's share of damage done to Germany. Last week Air Vice Marshal R. H. M. S. Saundby, Deputy Chief of the Bomber Command, supported the claim with figures. Said he: One-fourth of the area in German cities attacked by the R.A.F. since May 11, 1940 has been devastated. In the ruins of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne "civilized life ... is no longer possible." Seventeen major cities in northwest Germany are "liabilities . . . to the enemy war machine." Six others need only one more good pasting...
Said Air Vice Marshal Saundby: The symptoms of an approaching German collapse are "too numerous to be overlooked...