Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announced the formation of a new Air Corps unit, concentrating all defensive aircraft (such as pursuit ships to drive off enemy bombers), anti-aircraft batteries, ground warning systems, in a single, centralized command. Hitherto these defensive functions have been scattered among Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, the Air Corps's General Headquarters Air Force. Now GHQ Air Force can be solely what it was intended to be-a powerful, offensive striking arm for attack on enemy centres...
Exasperated by such belittling, and badly in need of some victory talk in the face of Germany's naval reverses last fortnight, Air Marshal Hermann Göring last week caused Lieut. Colonel Karl Schumacher, in command of the wing assigned to protect Germany's northwest sea approaches, to appear in the theatre hall of the Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem...
...checking for artillery fire last time in France was so good that sometimes his barrage shots, before Canadian advances, blasted German guns before they could get their muzzle and breech covers off. Soldiers, in Canada and elsewhere, rate him the ablest officer in the British Empire, barred from higher command because he is a colonial...
Shirley Temple-"Presh" to her mother -now a radio actress, has long been a radio fan. She has six or eight radio sets at her command in her daily comings & goings, likes Gang Busters almost as well as her favorite, the Lone Ranger. But, because of studio and parental objections, she has never been allowed to act on a radio program before this week...