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...there was a new pair of legs under old William Tecumseh Sherman's ornately carved desk. Bald, 60-year-old Brigadier General George Veazey Strong, long overdue for duty away from Washington, had been transferred from the top of the General Staff's War Plans Division to command of the VII Corps Area at Omaha. His successor was a 52-year-old, brand-new brigadier general: straight-lipped, shock-haired Leonard Townsend Gerow (pronounced jehr...
...Bangkok, a communique by Thailand's High Command gave out that Siamese forces had repelled an invasion by 24 French guerrillas mounted on two elephants, a bicycle, three horses...
...cavalry. What additional tanks and armored vehicles the Army possessed were scattered among older services. It took Hitler's Panzer divisions to wake up the U. S. Army. The lone Seventh Brigade suddenly grew (on paper) into a full-fledged armored force. Tank-minded pioneers were given command, plus a free hand to concentrate practically all of the Army's mechanized equipment in two divisions...
...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...
Bitterly the Italian High Command had to correct these reports. The "Terribili" were not marching eastward. The High Command did not stress the fact that they were running westward, farther and farther into Libya. The prisoners were not British, they were Italian-31,546 of them (so far counted), including 1,626 officers. It was not a Roman victory, it was another shocking Roman rout, a fierce continuation of last fortnight's Battle of the Marmarica in which, after slicing through Capuzzo (in the line of forts guarding Libya's eastern border), savage little squadrons of fast British...