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...Braintrusters. The men who sweat for the armed forces over the answer to that question are the top crust of their profession: men like the Air Forces' Major General Lauris Norstad, the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman, the Army's braintruster, 39-year-old Brigadier General George A. Lincoln, head of the Army's strategy and policy team. Their answer is a whopper...
...details had been worked out in scores of conferences between Major General Lauris Norstad, one of the Army's keenest strategists, and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, an airborne sailor who has long been Fleet Admiral Nimitz' brain trust. Sitting in, when higher echelons were called for, were Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal and the Army's W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary...
...question was now before a three-man Senate subcommittee, aided by two of the smartest, fastest-stepping officers going: Major General Lauris Norstad and Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford. The first sessions were passionless, devoted to broad principles and academic details. Utah's professorial Elbert Thomas took a phrase from the preamble to the Constitution to name the unified war machine the "Department of Common Defense." The dogfighting would come when Airman Radford and Airman Norstad tangled over the disposition of the Navy's land-based air forces. Even so, the bill should be ready in six weeks...
...tour as Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then LeMay concentrates on Japan...
...bosses had got hold of something new and good: large-scale night fire-bombing of Japan's cities. The top planning had been done in Washington under Brigadier General Lauris O. ("Swede") Norstad, chief of staff of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force. Then the details were left to Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay, who had the field command and with it, the tactical responsibility, as head of the 21st Bomber Command in the Marianas...