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...Chief of the U.S. Air Mission, tried to make the Russians understand the demands of strategic warfare so that they would grant the U.S. bomber bases; attended the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences. In 1944, with his second star, became commander of the Ninth Air Force, supported General George Patton in his sweep across France, and helped General Omar Bradley turn the Battle of the Bulge. Vandenberg got his third star in 1945; after the war he changed into civvies to run the Central Intelligence group. He returned to the Air Forces in 1947 as Deputy Commander and Chief...
...Hickey H. William L. Bliss, Sherborn; John R. Bray, Orchard Park. N. Y.; Dustin M. Burke, Athol; Richard J. Clasby, Natick; Thomas J. Coolidge, Brookline; Nathan E. Corning, Cleveland; Walter F. Greeley, Framingham; Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr., Dedham; Morgan P. Hatch, Wellesley; Edward A. Hubbard, South Natick; Anthony S. Patton, Arlington; Edwin B. Richardson, New York City; Carl W. Timpson, Jr., Hewlett, N. Y.; James O. Welch, Jr., Belmont; Reginald N. Wood, Marblehead; Theodore C. Nelson, Manager, Hartford, Conn...
...Among his patients: General George Patton. Lawrence of Arabia...
Stalin's Architects. What Bradley and Patton did in Normandy and after, says Wilmot, was made possible by Montgomery's canny generalship around Caen that enabled the Americans to break out. Only occasionally is Monty chided for caution; in the end his virtues completely swamp his faults. Bradley gets sterner treatment. Heavy U.S. casualties during the Normandy landings, says Wilmot, were largely the result of Bradley's refusal to use British-invented armored weapons and machines that helped cut British losses to a minimum. Bradley declined to use the British "Crabs" (flailing tanks that could smash...
Wilmot pays handsome tributes to Eisenhower's genius as an Allied coordinator, but in his opinion, Ike frittered away his strength, failed to control Bradley and Patton when they were wrong, and above all lost the chance...