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...bloody beaches a staff officer told Alexander: "The situation is catastrophic." "Sorry," said Alexander, "I don't understand such big words." He then squatted on the beach and built a sand castle. He was the last man in his command to leave Dunkirk...
...modern warfare, General Roberts watched the battle's progress, directed land, sea and sky operations by radio. Three aides listened with earphones, relayed his orders to warships, to tank drivers pounding along Dieppe's beach, to Spitfire pilots high in the summer sky, to the air command 77 miles away in England, upon whom he depended for air reinforcement...
...That offensive policy presumably was an eventual second front, for which the Canadians had staged a costly rehearsal. What had been learned from it, what had been accomplished beyond the probable diversion of more of the Luftwaffe to the west and the destruction of some military installations, the High Command kept to itself...
...Last week the U.S. augmented its small Far East Air Forces with new officer talent-46-year-old Brigadier General Clayton L. Bissell, World War I ace and one of the youngest of his rank. His command: the Tenth Air Force, which Major General Lewis Brereton headed before being transferred to the Near East. The Tenth, based in India, may operate also in China and Burma, reinforcing the commands of Brigadier General Claire Chennault...
...flight to Egypt found Churchill in "the office" (control cabin) of the four-motored American B-24 bomber, chattering with Pilot William Vanderkloot of Sarasota, Fla., winner of the Order of the British Empire for his Ferry Command radio-beam installations on the North Atlantic, and with Co-Pilot Jack Ruggles of San Francisco, once-wounded, four-year veteran of the Chinese Air Force...