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Conditions are improving, and U.S. General Lauris Norstad, NATO air commander in Central Europe, promised to have every one of his men in warm hutments before winter sets in. Impressed after five days' touring, Hoyt Vandenberg reported morale "damned good...
...landings with French officers; lost his pants on the way back when the canoe capsized, but won promotion to lieutenant general, thus at 46 became the youngest three-star general in U.S. history up to that time. (His record was broken later by the Air Force's Lauris Norstad, who got his third star at 40.) Later Clark wrung from Admiral Darlan the cease fire order to all French forces in North Africa. After serving as Eisenhower's second in command in North Africa, took command of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy. Heavy casualties at Anzio...
...Vandenberg's vice chief of staff (TIME, March 10). Curt LeMay switched jobs with General Nathan Twining, who helped build up SAC's World War II predecessor, the B-29 Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Vandenberg is well anchored in Europe with Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, Eisenhower's air chief at SHAPE and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and in the Pacific with Lieut. General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland, commander of Far East Air Forces...
...Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, 44, Allied Air Commander of SHAPE, admitted to New York Herald Tribune Columnists Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg that he was getting on a bit. Said he: "When I was playing squash every day, not so long ago, I used to think of golf as an old man's game. Well, maybe it is, but now I'm playing golf." However, he said, fishing was still his first love, and for his casting expeditions he had bought a jaunty Tyrol hat, decked out with the traditional chamois brush and silver pins...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...