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...year-old Army veteran, V.M.I.-man and West Pointer, possessor of the D.S.M., D.S.C., Silver Star and Purple Heart from World War I and one of the service's least reliable tempers, Eisenhower gave command of an army. Some days after the Germans had announced the fact to the world, General Patton was officially unveiled as leader of the victorious Third Army in its dash to the Seine. After that, no one could complain...
...West Pointer Tompkins was picked in May 1943 to head the planning unit. Under him is a staff of 22. In his office in the Pentagon Building, bound between pasteboard covers, filed away in desk drawers are the blueprints for the machinery needed to demobilize the greatest Army in the nation's history. Within the past month, conferences have followed one another so rapidly that Tompkins' work basket and the baskets of his staff now are chockablock with nothing but demobilization reports...
Shortage of Weapons. In Washington, Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces, called a hurried press conference. With chart and pointer, he pointed out the Army's urgent needs: trucks, small bombs, radar, heavy artillery ammunition. In all, he listed shortages in 320 vital categories. General Somervell was angry. He shouted: "If we are going to keep down the cost in American life, then the cost in labor and effort for everyone back here must continue to rise until it strikes its high point at midnight on the day before the enemy's final collapse...
Whitey McNair left an only son to carry on. This week the War Department announced that redheaded, 37-year-old Colonel Douglas McNair, a West Pointer and an artilleryman like his father, had been killed in action on Guam...
Fifteen months ago, West Pointer McNair got away from his desk for a while, went to Tunisia to see his pupils perform in battle. It was a brief and unlucky experience: in his first day under fire he was wounded. He came home with his arm in a sling and went back to work...