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...most remarkable feats of tactical support was accomplished by flyers of Brigadier General Otto P. Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should...
Married. Commander David McCampbell, 35, No. 1 Navy ace (34 Jap planes, nine in one day), recently awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Sara-Jane Heliker Kahn, 33, ex-daughter-in-law of the late Financier Otto H. Kahn; both for the second time; at Anacostia...
World Wars I & II had been the greatest upsetters of thrones in history. But while Otto of Austria, Peter of Yugoslavia, George of Greece might hope (however mistakenly) one day to resume their royal careers, the Hohenzollerns could scarcely even cherish illusions. As a ruling dynasty they seemed to be as safely mummified as Egypt's XXII Dynasty...
...Broadway where egos come extra large, Harris is still notably outsized. Once Harris tried to get Otto Kahn to back a production of O'Neill's one-act plays...
Tall (6 ft.), gregarious Hoyt Vandenberg still had a big outfit and able sub-commanders. The XIX Tactical Air Command, headed by quiet, efficient Brigadier General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland (rhymes with island) was Vandenberg's link to the battlefields of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. Vandenberg's bomber outfit was a whopper, headed by Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, whose Marauders and Havocs had played a big part in pushing the German airfields back from the Atlantic in advance of Dday...