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...character for the number. Their dance duets are the best since Astaire and Rogers split. Scene after scene, even the troublesome Manhattanites in their splendid lairs, have a remarkable authenticity of emotion, place, atmosphere and character. So do most of the sets, costumes, dance routines, Jerome Kern tunes and Ira Gershwin lyrics...
...admitting this limited aim, official Washington was far less sanguine than air enthusiasts used to sound. Lieut. General Ira Eaker, September 1942: "I believe it is possible to destroy the enemy from the air." General Henry H. Arnold, June 1943: "We are going to end [the war] and end it soon by bombing military objectives consistently and with the maximum destructive power that we possess...
...IRA C. EAKER Lieutenant General, U.S.A. APO 650 c/o Postmaster New York City...
Bombs & Shells. There was no air opposition. When the bombers finished, the artillery took up the pounding, fired some 85,000 shells from guns ranging up to 240-mm. (9.4-in.) bore. The artillery barrage was heavier than the famous pounding that preceded El Alamein. Said Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, Mediterranean air commander...
...Some other U.S. generals honored for their services in World War II: Dwight Eisenhower (also a K.C.B.), Ira Eaker (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), Mark Clark (Knight of the Order of the British Empire...