Word: liaisons
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...remove the possibility of being tricked by a crafty native translator, American armies must have men who can speak Japanese, German, and any other foreign languages necessary in countries which may be occupied by our troops. They must know, furthermore, languages which may be needed for effective liaison with our allies...
...remove the possibility of being tricked by a crafty native translator, American armies must have men who can speak Japanese, German, and any other foreign languages necessary in countries which may be occupied by our troops. They must know, furthermore, languages which may be needed for effective liaison with our allies...
That show, for the airborne people, was something like giving a command performance with a symphony orchestra of well-trained musicians, none of whom had been introduced to each other or had ever played in public before. Liaison between air, ground and sea forces was faulty. In one of the war's most tragic errors, U.S. antiaircraft guns blasted down a covey of troop-laden planes like fat ducks. Because of this, the scheduled glider runs were hastily called off. Other transport pilots missed landmarks and sowed their hapless paratroops up & down the coast, miles from their objectives...
...January a Soviet mission had come to SHAEF in Paris, and U.S. airmen had gone to Moscow. Now London disclosed that Sir Arthur Tedder-Eisenhower's brilliant deputy commander and one of the world's great air strategists -had also gone to Moscow, to organize "close liaison between the advancing Russian armies and British and American bomber forces in the west." Said Eisenhower: "The Russians have furnished me with all the information I needed to know, and have done so cheerfully and willingly...
...trouble lies not so much with small potatoes like Surplus Liquidators, Inc. as with the Government itself. Investigators have found repeated indications of the same offhanded waste in disposal as there was and is in the procurement of war goods. They have also found a startling lack of working liaison between Government agencies with goods to sell, and agencies trying desperately to buy the same kind of goods. But civilian buyers seem to have been alert...