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...sweeping High Command shakeup, hailed by a jubilant press as a sure sign that "fighting days are here again," General Sir John Greer Dill, who will reach the retirement age of 60 Christmas Day, announced his own replacement as Chief of Staff by General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 58, Commander in Chief of Home Forces and mechanized-warfare specialist. But popular Wizard Brooke will also reach retirement age in 20 months. Named Vice Chief was the ranker, Major General Archibald Nye, who is only...
Some recalled that at the end of May last year they had bared their heads when that same figure emerged from the Ministry of War in Paris, summoned post-haste from the Near East to take command of the French armies in a forlorn hope...
...rare occasions when Tommy Hart talks about his career, he is apt to say that he has been lucky. Lucky or no, he moved up fast. He got his first command when he was in his late 205 (the destroyer Lawrence), became, after a stretch of sea duty, Inspector of Ordnance at the Newport, R.I. Naval Torpedo Station, executive officer of the U.S.S. Minnesota, commander of submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. In 1931 he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy, won a rear admiral's rank, the nickname "Turtleneck" and the gratitude of football fans...
When Tommy Hart finished his trick at the Academy in 1934, he was put in command of a division of cruisers. Then came two and a half years as Chairman of the Navy's General Board; he cut red tape with a vengeance, recommended many an improvement in ship design. In July 1939 he was made Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, assumed the rank of full admiral and hoisted his four-starred flag over the U.S.S. Augusta...
Brigadier Wilson was in command of a brigade of veterans when the Allied Army began to disintegrate before the Germans...