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Special Broadcast (Tues. 10:05 p.m., ABC). Salute to NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad...
Scott's idea won enthusiastic applause from all the air generals but one: General Lauris Norstad, soon to be named to succeed retiring General Al Gruenther as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Norstad argued convincingly that the Air Force was already getting more than twice the appropriations of the other services and that it was no time to stir up trouble. Norstad won few Air Force converts with his appeal, but he did have a sobering effect on the conference. Bob Scott's campaign was drastically watered down...
Slated to succeed General Alfred M. Gruenther as supreme allied commander in Europe at year's end: General Lauris Norstad, U.S. Air Force...
World War II: In February, 1942, G-2's Norstad was called to the office of General "Hap" Arnold, thought he was about to be bawled out for an argument with a senior general, instead was told: "What I need is someone to help me do my thinking. That's your job now." With that mandate Norstad became the Air Forces' hottest young planner, helped map the air-war plan that placed emphasis first on the European theater, then on the Pacific. He was air-operations officer for the Twelfth Air Force under Jimmy Doolittle...
Postwar: At the insistence of Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Airman Norstad was named War Department director of plans and operations. While Air generals and Navy admirals brawled in public, Norstad and the late Admiral Forrest Sherman quietly conferred, arrived at agreement on service unification. Norstad became Air Force operations chief in 1947, went to Germany in 1950 as commander in chief of the U.S. Air Force in Europe, was named Al Gruenther's deputy air commander in July, 1953. At NATO Norstad shaped atomic strategy, built up the air base network-communications system-and radar-warning service...