Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LeMay there was no sign - he had become a staff officer. One consolation was that at 38, LeMay, already the youngest major general in the U.S. Army in World War II, probably could look for ward to getting his third star. He is younger than any of his young wing commanders...
Maintenance was LeMay's fetish ("you can't drop bombs from a grounded plane"). When he noticed the ground force overworked in one group, while another group's men were comparatively idle, he pooled all the maintenance forces within each wing. A crack pilot with an exceptional feel for mechanic's work, he set up a system of specially skilled roving workers, for speedier, better repairs...
Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
Wanted: a Title. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., U.S. member of the commission and U.S. representative in the world organization, had moved out of the State Department and taken over a quiet office in the left wing of the White House. He already had a small staff, would have a larger one as the organization and his work grew...
...power was working grimly on Japan. Planes from General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force moved up to Okinawa,* and joined in operations against Kyushu. Iwo-based P-51 Mustangs strafed Tokyo's "protective" airfields, against no airborne opposition. Blockading aircraft from Fleet Air Wing 1 sank six Jap ships off China and Korea...