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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., after guiding his destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander Roosevelt for the Legion of Merit...
...headed by WPB executive officer John D. Small, is the coordinator for eleven sub committees. All are charged with the job of guiding industry back to civilian goods manufac ture, while maintaining a war output sufficient to insure the defeat of Japan...
Rebuilding Italian towers is only a trifling part of the mammoth job now being done by 16 Allied officers (eight Britons, eight Americans), whose jawbreaking official title is the Allied Sub-commission for Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives in Italy. The title has been briefly translated by G.I.s into "Venus Fixers...
...caught up with Walton only six days out to sea, in the darkness before dawn when a U-boat attacked the Coast Guard cutter on which he was crossing the Atlantic (perhaps you remember his vivid story of the eight-hour battle in which the Spencer finally killed the sub...
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...