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Last week the U.S. got another glimpse of suave Mr. Bullitt. A photograph from an Army operations headquarters "somewhere in England" (see cut) showed him walking with Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of the A.E.F., and Brigadier General Ira Eaker, head of the U.S. bomber command, who this week personally led a force of Flying Fortresses in a raid on occupied France (see p. 26). Then he went to Ireland, conferred for an hour with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera...
Meshing two air forces into one offensive force is a tough and tremendous job. For the most part the job is being done well and rapidly, by men who have become close friends. Two of London's boon companions are Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S. air commander in Britain, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command. Their bonds: flying and poker. They and other officers play often, but they seldom finish a game. Spaatz and Harris usually forget the cards, fall to telling each other how they can beat Hitler from...
...five agencies lay the sections of a master pattern. The next step was a master hand who would put the jigsaw together. Once the nation had an Economic High Command-and a High Commander-the war effort might begin to make sense...
Another great, "final" reorganization of the U.S. war effort began to emerge. In Washington's high places, talk of an Economic High Command had turned from whether? to how? Even the men who are now top dog in their own fields, and must someday take orders from such a High Command, were ready to give up their prerogatives as the price of order, which is the price of victory...
...faced British colonel shifted his weight, stoically posed for his photograph. The man taking his picture was that cameraphile, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. With some Indian troops in his command, the colonel had been seized during the confused fighting in the desert. His captors had hauled him in to exhibit him to the victorious Field Marshal of the Afrika Korps...