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...Line. The Navy now has 202 flag officers of the line: admirals, vice admirals, rear admirals, commodores...
...rear admirals (major generals) the Navy has 153, not counting the rear admirals in staff corps (supply, medical, dental and engineering) who are not flag officers because they fly no flags, may tread no quarter-decks. Twenty-five of the rear admirals of the line are EDOs, 33 are aviators, two are aviation observers. Their average...
Russia. A stiffened Wehrmacht, bogged roads, overextended lines slowed the Red advance, halted it in some places. The Germans counterattacked, retook the rail center of Zhitomir, at the least gained time to strengthen a rear defense line...
...Dnieper by the battered Wehrmacht. The Germans, despite their sudden show of strength, stood on a line which was easily pierced. In all likelihood the Nazi counterattacks were not a general, coordinated offensive, but were local attacks, intended merely to halt the Russians until the German defenses in the rear are ready...
When W. Averell Harriman succeeded Admiral Standley, Washington decided on a new deal, a whole new pack of cards to boot. Faymonville was relieved and reduced. Also relieved were Michela (reduced to Colonel) and Standley's former aide, Rear Admiral Jack Duncan. To Congress Cordell Hull proclaimed: "I am glad to say there is now in Moscow a highly competent U.S. Military Mission headed by Major General John R. Deane, [former secretary to the U.S. members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff]." Faymonville's job last week: temporary duty at the Texarkana Ordnance Center...