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...head Army Ordnance's automotive combat division, with probable rank of brigadier general, Alfred Robinson Glancy, ex-vice president of General Motors Corp...
...military supplies to Russia over its Caspian routes. Last week the appearance at Teheran of a new U.S. figure-Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf (the New Jersey policeman who failed to solve the Lindbergh kidnapping)-to reorganize and enlarge the national police in Persia perhaps presaged the coming of U.S. combat forces, but for the present any fighting would be a job for the British and Russians...
Next year Sir Henry will have a bigger army. He will have more equipment. He may well have U.S. combat forces with him. But, in the last months of 1942, the Germans must be kept off the bridge. If they are strong enough to reach it, they will probably be strong enough to take...
...stepping up of the intensity of the vital combat in which we are engaged and the growing need for enlarged forces make it clear that all young men fortunate enough to serve their country in the armed forces are destined for that service,' he said...
Then came the surprise. The extent of military installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove them from the narrow shore into the waist-deep mud of the mangrove swamps. Allied planes blasted them. The Japanese sent a rescue fleet of eight destroyers and a cruiser to evacuate the remnants of their forces. Lost were all their tanks and heavy equipment...