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...Army Commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons, 53, Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, a flyer since 1917 (4,000 hours plus), a hard-riding perfectionist, tough as parachute silk. This appointment significantly put a flyer in command of all Army forces in Hawaii...
...Hawaiian Air Force Commander, Brigadier General Clarence L. Tinker, 54, a spit-&-polish, sky-ripping flight officer, part Osage Indian (Oklahoma), flyer since 1920, chief of Third Interceptor Command...
...Supreme War Council, or Allied Command, or World G.H.Q. to be set up in Washington was a rumor that ran the streets there last week. Geography made the location inevitable; the productive power of the U.S. clinched it. The President was thinking about the problem: a stream of dope stories and one White House statement made certain that plans for such a council "of joint planning for unity of action" was under way. "High personages'' from other anti-Axis nations were reported on the ocean or in the skies, Washington-bound...
Under consideration was a plan to consolidate all Allied forces-Army, Navy, Air forces of the British, Dutch, Chinese, U.S. and possibly Russian-under one supreme amphibious commander in each great geographical area. For instance: to make General Douglas MacArthur commander of all anti-Axis forces in the South Pacific, his command to stretch from Rangoon to Honolulu...
Last week, when the first frantic blackouts ended, West Coast citizens argued about whether they had done well or badly. In Seattle they were talking about Brigadier General Carlyle Wash, boss of the Second Interceptor Command, who ordered the blackouts, ordered radio stations off the air. When listeners complained, General Wash snorted: "To hell with entertaining people. We're trying to save their fool lives." They talked about one blackout crime: a man posed as an air-raid warden, raped a Chinese girl. They talked about the storm that swept the coast-one of the worst in years...