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...longer could the War Department keep its secret from the public. At first War Secretary Stimson gruffly refused to comment. ("I can't ask for a report on what every soldier says when he comes back. ) But before the day ended the old Secretary's bluff was called and the Army and Navy jointly acknowledged that Sergeant Foisie was more than right. On the night of July 10-11 U.S. airborne troops had "received antiaircraft fire from enemy ground forces and from friendly naval and ground forces with losses of 23 aircraft [C-47s] and 410 personnel...
Next day War Secretary Henry L. Stimson summarily ordered the War College Library's "recommendations" discontinued...
...General George C. Marshall appeared before the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He asked that no action be taken on the resolution at this time, warned that military operations might be endangered in the tinderbox Near East. Bolstering him were letters to the Committee from Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. At week's end, it appeared that the Senate would heed General Marshall...
Secretary of War Stimson, who held to his record of whitewashing the Army, was no help. Elmer Davis went through his routine of trying to see what he could do. But at week's end, over all the protests, the fact stood clear: the military was moving to dictate the interpretation of events. TIME'S Will Lang cabled from Anzio: "The press, which has campaigned since the war's beginning for rapid release of the worst as well as of the best news, has received a definite setback. The trend is to controlled censorship, to the Army...
Such wide generosity has long irked foot soldiers and sailors who note flyers wearing as many as 14 decorations. But something is being done about it. This month President Roosevelt ordered Secretaries Knox and Stimson to formulate regulations for a new medal, the Bronze Star, to be awarded Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel "for heroic or meritorious service not involving aerial flight," i.e., a sort of Air Medal for ground and surface forces...