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...Power. Heading General Dwight Eisenhower's "precision offensive" was tight-lipped Lieut. General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, commanding the British First Army of vengeful veterans of Flanders and Dunkirk. Second in command was Major General Charles Ryder, commanding auxiliary U.S. assault troops and motorized infantry. R.A.F. Spitfires, equipped with a tank-busting cannon, and Brigadier General James Doolittle's planes covered the advance in the air. Offshore were units of the British Fleet...
Whether Jimmy Doolittle's zest and aptitude for personal leadership will carry him through the biggest job of his life, with all the complexities of command in the unusually complex Mediterranean theater, is still a question. But it is not a big question in the minds of airmen who have known him since he was a fledgling. Said one of them last week: "Time just went by, and he improved with time, that...
Darlan was the man who pulled the strings in Africa. At his command the Vichy armies would fight or lay down their arms. In that fact lay power such as he had never held. Darlan did not hesitate to make...
...fire" order to all French troops in North Africa. Then, in an announcement broadcast by the Algiers radio, he took over the civil administration of the colonies in the name of Marshal Pétain-and with the approval of the U.S. authorities. He set up his own military command under the stanch old soldier and escapist General Henri Honoré Giraud (TIME, Nov. 16). Still in the name of Marshal Pétain, a virtual prisoner now in his own capital of Vichy, still with the approval of the U.S. commanders, an administration took form in North Africa under...
Winds in Vichy. Darlan and his acts did not appear to be accepted by the Vichy Government. Marshal Pétain, under sudden and critical pressure, changed his course like a weathervane, finally succumbed in impotence when German armies, at Hitler's command, swept through Unoccupied France in a 24-hour dash to the Mediterranean.* From Vichy's radio, now fully under German control, came repeated repudiations of everything Darlan did and the injunction to Frenchmen to obey only Pétain's orders...