Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. General Samuel E. Anderson, 51, director of the long-range Pentagon Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, succeeds Power as chief of Air Research and Development. Mild-mannered, high-strung West Pointer Anderson led the England-based wartime 9th Bomber Command, showed worried high brass how to use the stepchild B-26 Martin Marauder medium bomber as an effective tactical bomber. After top Pentagon staff jobs, he went back to command, led SAC's Eighth Air Force and later the Fifth Air Force in Korea...
Lieut. General Frank F. Everest, 52, deft right hand to Nate Twining (as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations) gains a star, becomes head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Blunt, tobacco-chewing West Pointer Frank Everest is the Air Force's outstanding global Ops (Operations) brain, commanded a heavy-bomber group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a Pentagon planner. After duty in Alaska and with the Atomic Energy Commission, Everest, like Anderson, led the Fifth Air Force in Korea, came home to join the Air Force's inner circles...
Like any proper British officer, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of El Alamein has a passing tactical knowledge of the Battle of Gettysburg. But for West Pointer Dwight Eisenhower, the Confederacy's high-water mark holds more than passing fascination. Ike first refought Gettysburg 40 years ago while stationed at nearby Camp Colt as a tank-corps captain. He has fought it since from his farm close by the field where the Confederates made their final desperate charge. Last week, carrying out a three-year promise, he took Old Comrade in Arms Montgomery out to fight it again...
Jackson or a Rabbit. Like most outstanding Civil War leaders, Jackson was blooded in the Mexican War. A West Pointer ('46, with budding Union General George Brinton McClellan and the Confederacy's George Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable...
Well-Organized Haste. SETAF's performance depends as much on its human muscle as it does on its scientific punch. SETAF's commanding officer, California-born Major General Harvey Fischer, is a barrel-chested West Pointer ('32) with a snappy mind and a faithful following. From the top brass down, that following is made up of controlled, hardened, carefully honed experts who have sheathed a commonplace soldier's training in the new technology...