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...commodores, the rank re-created by Congress in April 1943, the Navy has 23, including one EDO, six aviators. Commodores, who wear one star like the Army's brigadier generals, command small task forces; one is serving on Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff; one is commandant of the Naval Operations Base in Londonderry, Northern Ireland; one is chief of the Moroccan Sea Frontier. Youngest of the commodores-and youngest flag officer in the Navy-is Thomas Selby Combs, 45, commander of Navy Aircraft in the Southwest Pacific.*Advancement. Rules of seniority have controlled advancement in the Navy...
...India's capital this week there was a beginning of military unity. Over New Delhi, long a cauldron of inter-and intra-Allied intrigue for military power and prestige, floated the flag of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten. The banner, a phoenix, centered on the Union Jack where the crosses of Saints George, Andrew and Patrick intersect, signified official constitution of the Allied Command in Southeast Asia. It implied more: that hereafter, in the "Battle of Delhi," the Jap was to be the only enemy...
Soon another precedent was shattered. Batches of "pukka sahib" generals, brigadiers and colonels, wise in the ways of frontier outposts and native rebellions, but notoriously untutored in modern jungle warfare, were ordered home to Britain. Replacing them were the bright young men of Admiral Mountbatten's old command, Combined Operations...
...will be months-perhaps many months-before Lord Louis Mountbatten's forces strike in strength. But, on the Burma borders, Allied power is already manifest. In the north, an Allied push clawed forward on schedule. Columns of crack Chinese troops in three weeks had advanced 50 miles, were at the southern tip of the 50-mile-long Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective...
With flashbulbs exploding, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Ambassadors Winant and Biddle in a flag-draped box, and Noel Coward, Bea Lillie and mobs of servicemen packing the house, it was a gala opening. It was also a demonstrative one: time after time cascading applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which...