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...never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Allen until I reached Accra on the Gold Coast of Africa. . . . Mr. Allen, furthermore, did not ask me for permission to ride in the plane. He addressed himself to General E. E. Adler in charge of the U.S. Bomber Ferry Command Service. ... I did not have any jurisdiction whatsoever over this plane. I was merely a passenger...
...bomber caused a 24-hour stayover at Accra and he was able to catch up with us traveling by regular Pan American service. It was at Accra that Mr. Allen asked permission to ride to Washington of Colonel Truesdale, of the U.S. Army Corps, who was in command of our plane. Colonel Truesdale wanted to take Mr. Allen but hesitated to do so without authority. He asked my view in the matter and I told him that since there was room in the plane (we had discharged three U.S. Army officers at Accra), I saw no reason why he should...
This was martial law, in effect. Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, chief of the Western Defense Command, marked off a strip of land curving some 2,000 miles along the Pacific, along the Mexican border, from Canada to New Mexico. Out of this coastal region all the thousands on thousands of enemy aliens and all Nisei must...
Kathryn the Great. Many months ago, Lewis seized on the Gas, By-Products, Coke & Chemical Division of his U.M.W., put an old & trusted henchman, Ora Gassaway, in top-sergeant command. Tough, unbeautiful Mr. Gassaway was only a top sergeant. Real boss was Daughter Kathryn, whom Lewis made secretary-treasurer...
...world and World War II changed last week. By their conquest of Java, the Japanese split the far Pacific. Its vast expanses ceased to exist as a single Allied war area. The great zone of strategy, action and command became a set of separated zones...