Word: samuels
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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...
...Samuel A. Halaby...
...lectures at Oxford University, Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, the U.S. Navy's official chronicler of World War II, took a fall out of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime strategy. The trouble: Churchill was "peripheral-minded" and wanted to send raiding parties at Europe's defensive shores "like jackals worrying a lion." Snorted Morison: "From most of [Churchill's] favorite targets you could not go anywhere!" Of the successful Normandy invasion in 1944: "But for the insistent,, unremitting, often rude and tactless pressure by Roosevelt, Marshall, Eisenhower and others to cross the Channel in force...
...Samuel H. Ordway, Jr. '21, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, presided over the ceremonies, thanked the President and Fellows of Harvard College who donated the property, and congratulated the various alumni who provided the structure...
...Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, emeritus, has used an Oxford University lecture and a book review in yesterday's New York Times to criticize the World War II strategy of Sir Winston Churchill and Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke...