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Like many a plain front-line G.I., General McNair was hit by a wild salvo dropped in the heavy air preparations for the Normandy breakthrough (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Army press officers in London had insisted that Lieut. General Lesley J. Mc-Nair, trainer of the Army's ground fight ing forces, had been killed by the enemy. But too many-people knew better, and last week the tragic truth came out. Able, respected "Whitey" McNair had been killed by a bomb dropped from a U.S. plane...
...Whitey" McNair was 58 when war came, but he was slim and fit and his mind was as flexible as a youngster's. Marshall called him "the brains of the Army." There was no new trick in war, whether British, German, Russian or improvised American that he was not ready to try, and to use if it were proved...
Fifteen months ago, West Pointer McNair got away from his desk for a while, went to Tunisia to see his pupils perform in battle. It was a brief and unlucky experience: in his first day under fire he was wounded. He came home with his arm in a sling and went back to work...
...July, the War Department announced that "Whitey" McNair was no longer in his old place. In recognition of a job superbly done, he had been sent overseas to combat duty. Last week from the Normandy battlefield came the end of the story. "Whitey" McNair had been killed in action...