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...national clamor [Gallup poll: 49%] for a united high command of the Army & Navy, had been answered by the Presidential appointment of a "generalissimo" whose job Mr. Roosevelt now defined as that of a mere "legman...
...nation, through its press, demanded a united command, headed by a generalissimo. President Roosevelt made a limited response by finally naming Admiral William D. Leahy as his own personal Chief of Staff (TIME, July 27). But what were Admiral Leahy's duties, what were his rights, what his responsibilities? Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief sounded at first like a huge...
...soldiers knew that gamblers' passes had won wars. In Britain some 2,000,000 British soldiers (including about 200,000 Canadians) were ready for action. More than a token force of U.S. fighting men was on hand. And Britain's R.A.F., still had at least a qualified command of the air over the Channel...
...Colonel Haynes, who handles a bomber as another man would handle a pursuit, was in the pilot's seat. We were in the air with bombers and fighters strung out behind us. Haynes's second in command and copilot was Major William E. Basye. Black-haired, poker-playing Butch Morgan, longtime associate of Haynes's, was in the bombardier's compartment. This was a tough mission and Haynes was putting his best...
...Force in China was still pitifully small-a few fighters, fewer bombers. Most of the fields painfully prepared by the patient Chinese were still idle; some had been taken by the Jap. But the Air Force was at work. What it had accomplished under the command of seam-faced Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault made the Chinese feel warm all over...