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...five weeks the purple-faced German command could stand the Cock Sparrow's impudence no longer. He carted him off to Germany, kept him under lock & key for four years...
...River bites through a sweeping scimitar of sand and spills into the Atlantic, a new chapter was started last week in the U.S.'s book of military tactics. It was a chapter on whose subject Germany had already written a terrifying five-foot shelf: cooperation under a single command of combat arms in battle...
...command the entire Caribbean defense area (Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, six other bases), 57-year-old Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews (Air Forces) succeeds finicky, 62-year-old Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis (Cavalry). The Caribbean Defense Command is the biggest field job yet given an Army airman. The change is also a drastic remedy for one of the Army's sore spots. As General Van Voorhis' subordinate air commander, in an area where air defense is paramount, Frank Andrews had been kicked into a back corner, given little chance to do his all-important job. Already tried...
...commander of the new, rapidly expanding Armored Force is an Army athlete, poloist, artilleryman: 53-year-old Jacobs Loucks Devers (rhymes with severs). One of the Army's youngest major generals, a colonel until 1940, "Jakie" Devers has lately done very well in command of Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Ninth (Infantry) Division. So far as actual practice or command goes, he has everything to learn about tanks. His compensating assets: a proved talent for vigorous command, a capacity for letting qualified subordinates use their brains and experience, constructive disrespect for red tape...
General Devers succeeds able 56-year-old Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a reformed cavalryman who pioneered tank warfare in the Army when tanks were noisy nuisances, but fell victim to ill health just after the Armored Force was organized under his command last year. Most of General Chaffee's key subordinates are also ex-cavalrymen who have suspected and bitterly opposed an attempt by the jealous Infantry to get control of the Armored Force. As a horse artilleryman who has recently commanded an Infantry division, General Devers is a logical choice to quash such rivalries, weld tank, infantry...