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Major Elliott Roosevelt was ordered to Colorado Springs' Air Support Command Base, to take command of an aerial photography group...
...most of his brother officers, to outright conflict with the Communist Party. Reorganizing the army to correct the defects of the Finnish campaign, he booted out the Party commissars who had been attached to every important Army unit. With General Georgy Zhukov, a reputedly brilliant newcomer to the High Command, he simplified Army organization, improved communications, cut tape which in any other army would be called red. Zhukov last week commanded the central front just north of Timoshenko's and probably had a lot to do with the local success near Voronezh. For reasons best known to Joseph Stalin...
...Army had poured troops, arms and supplies into the British Isles for a second-front fighting force. Yet the machine was a long way from being tuned up, would not run at full power before spring. One measure of its progress: the last cogs in its high command were supplied only last week...
...many U.S. soldiers were under General Eisenhower's command was a military secret. But it could be said that they were already in the hundreds of thousands. The work of organization, of training, feeding, maintenance of equipment and all the other details of behind-the-lines preparation was enough to crowd the days and the bridge-expert mind of the A.E.F.'s top military precisionist...
...Tooey" Spaatz knew that he would do little flying beyond chases from field to field on his inspection tours. For the time being, his job too was heavily weighted with housekeeping affairs. New airdromes must be built to make room for the U.S. Air Forces. General Spaatz's command had to be accented strongly on the side of ground-bound outfits: Engineers, Air Forces supply men, Air Base groups. These outfits will operate airdromes, build overhaul depots to put planes back in running order when major crackups or plain wear & tear put them out of the fight...