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There may have been progress toward a United Command last week. The nation saw only one piece of evidence: a photograph, taken on the White House steps, of the three key military men of the U.S. (see cut). Closeted with Franklin Roosevelt had been his new personal Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Admiral William D. Leahy. Also present were the Navy's Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King; the Army's four-starred Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall...
Then the Navy Department put out what looked like big, spot news: an anonymous naval officer had taken full command of all units in the Aleutians. But next day a Navy spokesman at Seattle said this was stale stuff, that a Naval officer had been in command since before the Japanese struck...
...goes credit for unifying the Air Corps, giving it a chance to design and buy its own equipment for its transformation from Army stepchild to Army mainstay (TIME, Feb. 9). He launched the big bomber program, mapped the worldwide network of Army airways under the Air Transport Command...
items of war are out of proportion to the U.S. ability to put fighting armies on fighting fronts. Furthermore, it is apparently the considered opinion of the U.S. High Command that the total of British troops, equipment and shipping available for continental action is not enough for a second front without great assistance from the U.S. All this does not mean that the Allies cannot open a second front this year. It does indicate that when Churchill and Roosevelt promised to act in time to help Russia, they did not expect a crisis before September or October...
...answers to his pregnant questions were hinted at by Maine's Republican Senator Ralph Brewster, hornet-mad over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman...