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...adequate voice to its own air-minded officers. Half the members of the new General Staff are airmen. In the three new sections which replaced the specialized haunts of hidebound brasshattery, General Arnold (Air) has equal say with Generals McNair (Ground Force) and Somervell (Supply). The Navy, whose top command was shared by two admirals, now has only...
They have achieved a formal unity of command in specific theaters-MacArthur in Australia, Admiral Nimitz in the Pacific, General Andrews in the Panama Canal area, etc. Yet in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Army bombed the Jap Fleet for three days without knowing, till Army pilots found the Navy in action, that the Navy was coming in too. Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone (TIME, June 1). The minds of generals and admirals, although much improved by six months' education in real...
...British crews knew that that night was only a curtain-raiser. Tough Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the bomber command, had said what they all believed...
...Lord Louis apparently was given full control. So that he can deal effectively with all three services, he was recently promoted from Commodore to Acting Vice Admiral in the Navy, given honorary Army and R.A.F. titles. Today, as Chief of Combined Operations, he has Britain's only unified command. Aside from Lord Louis, only his second cousin George VI and the King's three brothers hold ranks in Army, Navy, R.A.F...
...World War II's start, Lord Louis was a Captain in command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Three months later his flagship, the new destroyer Kelly, hit a mine in the North Sea. Lord Louis nursed her home, transferred to another flagship until the Kelly was repaired. The next May, a U-boat torpedoed the Kelly. Lord Louis & crew again brought her home. In November 1940, aboard the new destroyer Javelin, Lord Louis led an attack on three German surface raiders. In flight, the Nazi warships fired a torpedo salvo. Two torpedoes holed the Javelin. R.A.F. fighters warded...