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...those Air Forces. Approximately 28% of the remaining graduates will be on the ocean blue before long, heading for organizations in a foreign theatre. Twelve to fifteen men may go to Headquarters Army Air Forces in Washington; other such groups will be assigned to organizations of the Flying Training Command and the Air Transport Command, and a few officers will go to stations under the Technical Training Command, which is the branch of their Forces operating the Statistical School and scores of other schools where technical ground-course training is given...
...Commandant. Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary--devout, genial, forceful, soldierly--has headed the Chaplain School since its reactivation at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind., thirteen months ago. By virtue of his position he is one of the two chaplains in the Army who exercise command. Irish-born and Paris educated, he first donned khaki as a chaplain in the World War, entered Germany with the Army of Occupation, served two tours in the Philippines, rose with the expanding Armored Force from chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division to chaplain of the First Armored Division...
Under-staffed and over-powered by the sudden influx of ERC applicants, the First Service Command has been laboring long and late over the long-expected ERC orders for Harvard and neighboring colleges, the Army's public relations division announced last night...
Chief headache for the much-maligned unit has been the fact that although all inductees in the New England area have to be cleared through Fort Devens, a reception center cannot handle more than a certain number of enlistees a day, and the First Service Command cannot issue more than that number of orders...
Confirmed as lieutenant general for war's duration last week was 62-year-old German-born Walter Krueger, who had held that rank on a temporary basis as the tacti cally smart commander of the U.S. Third Army. Meaning of his rank-for-the-duration: he had been assigned to an unspecified command in a war theater...