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Mark Clark had learned to train men in the U.S., where he had been Lieut. General Lesley ("Whitey") McNair's Ground Force Commander's Chief of Staff, and in Britain, where he had been General Eisenhower's right hand. In North Africa his job was to build up forces for the attack on Italy. He and his staff, headed by small, fair-haired, mathematically minded Chief of Staff Alfred Maximilian (Continued...
When World War II began, Mark Clark, climbing the routine ladder of promotion, was a lieutenant colonel. He had won the confidence of the men who had the job of organizing the U.S. draft army that came into being in 1940. Under General McNair, Major General Clark flew more than 60,000 miles a year organizing the ground forces at home. He carried on the same task in the European Theater under General Eisenhower. Insiders said that the long-bodied General was a man to watch...
...orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard. Young officers took them to Guadalcanal and Tunisia, Attu and Sicily. Last month Balmer's command won official commendation from Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, head of Army Ground Forces: "Battle results . . . have demonstrated conclusively that the current artillery doctrines are sound and probably the most advanced in the world. . . . [This] is due . . . almost wholly to a single factor: the Field Artillery School...
Also, two Harvard courses will be on the schedule Administrative Policy, under Professor Bates, and War Production and Government Controls II, under the direction of Professor McNair...
...Daddy Weems was beaming last week. T.I.S.'s program was well over the hump. Starting next month, they can expand the course to 17 weeks as the need for new officers slackens (TIME, April 26). This week T.I.S. will have its first formal inspection by Lieut. General Lesley McNair, head of the Army Ground Forces. Among the sights: 239 first classmen from West Point, 90 officers of the newly activated 42nd ("Rainbow") Division taking refresher courses...