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Rear Admiral Ferdinand Louis Reichmuth, 57, is an even-tempered foil to his boss. Admiral Reichmuth (pronounced Rike-muth) has in his destroyer command 60 to 75 destroyers (in two flotillas), at least 25 fewer than there were when the U.S. turned 50 destroyers over to Great Britain last year...
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, 55, commands the train of tankers, transports, tenders which any fleet needs for extended operations. Admiral Jacobs is one of three officers for whom Admiral King reached far down the seniority list, promoting them over the heads of many an older captain. The others (also in command succession...
Rear Admiral Robert Carlisle Giffen, 55, is the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) buckarooly commander of the Fleet's one division of four heavy cruisers. Last though he is in battle succession, "Ike" Giffen thus has a command second only in importance to that of Admirals King and Le Breton...
Winston Churchill reiterated the charge, and added that there were also Germans in British uniform, but hedged on whether or not they would be executed. The German High Command offered a very good reason why they were probably not: if the British executed Germans, the German Army would order "suitable reprisals against British prisoners of war in a proportion of ten-to-one." In any case, the British claimed that the initial confusion did not bother them...
From Egyptian bases the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Germans. But after four days of complete silence, the German High Command, generally cautious in announcing successes on land, said at week's end: "The western portion of the island . . . is securely in German hands." This week German tanks, possibly airborne but probably also seaborne, appeared in action, and the British admitted that the Germans had broken out from Malemi...