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...Army generals wanted the Defense Secretary to define the role of the Marine Corps, hoped it would be to Army prescription, i.e., virtually to limit the Marines to small-unit Commando work and overseas police duties. If this were done, the Marines would require units of no more than brigade strength (8,000), would probably also have to take a big cut in overall strength. The Army could go ahead on the assumption that only the Army would run off the big land operations if war should come, could thus have all the planning under one roof...
Born. To Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 27, Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis in one action), and May Frances Boish Kelly, 21: their second child, first son; in Pittsburgh. Name: Charles Jr. Weight...
...soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
Dignitaries and former Resistance leaders last week plodded across muddy fields to the remote hamlet of Bruneval in Normandy. There, at a ceremony to honor a British commando raid, Charles de Gaulle came out of retirement and opened a campaign to recapture power...
James Biggar, manager of caretaking, also labled Yard security top secret, but was clearly not inclined to fiddle while College grass plots burn. His men are primed for a repetition of the November 14 Yale commando raid on Princeton, which included burning a large "Y" on the lawn of the Nassau...