Word: commanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Jungle Road to Tokyo, by Robert L. Eichelberger with Milton MacKaye. Combat and command decisions in the Pacific; General Eichelberger understood both (TIME...
...Constantly keep in mind the objective of the unit you command...
Last week the Communist high command, facing defeat in Korea, struck a major counterblow in Indo-China. Within a few days, the Communists forced the French to abandon a whole line of forts and thereby wrecked the French plan of containing and eventually starving out the rebels. At week's end the Moscow newspapers were giving as much space to Indo-China as to Korea...
...about Viet Nam's Emperor Bao Dai living with his family at the Cháteau de Thorenc above Cannes. Minister of State Jean Letourneau, in charge of Indo-Chinese affairs, on coming out of a cabinet meeting, tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command has got the situation in hand . . . There is absolutely no justification for any panic or for talk of catastrophe." The cabinet called on energetic General Alphonse Juin, French Resident General in Morocco, to look into the Indo-China mess. Juin's first act last week was a telephone call...
...Argentina after World War II. Now working as adviser on V-weapons for the Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...