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...assault on Nazi Europe was still growing in weight and speed (see chart). The record of sorties flown in a single day by Allied planes rose to 8,000. The greatest U.S. air fleet ever launched on a single mission sent 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters against three synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. This was air power in force to fit the fondest visions of Mitchell and Douhet-and more accurately employed than they had even dreamed in their...
...Army favored the idea. The Army even had a neat chart showing how it could be done: a Secretary for the Armed Forces, Under Secretaries for Army, Navy and Air, a Director of Common Supplies. The Army did not expect to make these drastic changes until after the war, but it did want to start the ball rolling...
...Navy, as no other department, runs itself. (Admirals have their own ways of keelhauling Navy Secretaries who cross their bows.) The Navy looked with doubt and suspicion at the Army's neat chart. Despite reassurances, the Navy also feared that a separate air force might mean the end of the Navy...
...European Advisory Commission's first big job-a chart for dividing conquered Germany among U.S., British, Russian occupation armies-was practically finished last week. Five months of brainwork in London had produced a tentative, deceptively simple plan...
...each of these battles Voronov helped to chart the blueprint, for he was now a member of the seven-man Supreme Command. Each blueprint gave his cannon an honored place. But Voronov was now more than an artilleryman; he was a top-rate, all-round field commander...