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Wilhelm Keitel was not an easy man last week. Uneasy friend of Adolf Hitler, uneasy advocate of the great Russian adventure, the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces had plenty of worries...
Figures Too High? Field Marshal Keitel must have been a little uneasy about the way things were getting out of hand mathematically. The campaign was at best less than half over and his communiques had already claimed nearly twice as many planes as the High Command had estimated the Russians to have. It claimed over 7,000; had estimated about 4,000. And yet, day by day, the Russian Air Force continued to operate and the Luftwaffe to shoot it down. At week's end the High Command communique announced: "The Soviet Air Force lost 281 planes yesterday, compared...
...Middle East Command, Sir Archibald's old one, has for seven months been the Empire's most important. India, which has been the second most important, might be the first if the Germans took European Russia and began heading southeast. India's Commander, Lieut. General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck, traded positions with General Wavell...
Hereafter, said he, commanders will be judged and chosen by their fitness for particular tasks-and not, as in the past, mainly by rank, seniority and the relative prestige of the Army's branches. For example: in Alaska, where the air forces will be more important than any others, an airman will command all Army units. In Newfoundland, the command of all Army forces has already been given to an airman (Brigadier General Henry W. Harms...
...many war tasks, Army and Navy forces must work together (as the British tragically learned in Crete, where their land, naval and air units seemed to be fighting three separate wars). The U.S. Army and Navy as yet have no satisfactory provision for coordinated command and joint staff work in such tasks. But General Marshall indicated last week that real Army-Navy cooperation is nearer than it ever was before...