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Retired Admirals and Generals Serve Country in Peacetime
A mass of senior officers now in business education or government perform notable peacetime roles. George Marshall chairs the American Red Cross and battle monuments group. Eisenhower leads Columbia University. Nimitz eyes Kashmir duties. Spaatz directs Air Force power studies and Civil Air Patrol work abroad.
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New York
Sam
George Marshall
America
American Red Cross
American Battle Monuments Commission
Dwight Eisenhower
Allied Expeditionary Force
Europe
Columbia University
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
United Nations
Kashmir
India
Pakistan
Carl (Tovey) Spaatz
Uncle Sam
Germany
Japan
US Air Force
Civil Air Patrol
Spaatz
Air Force Academy
West Point
Annapolis
News Week
Air Power
Lucius D. L. Clay
Continental Can Company
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company of
Ben Morrell
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Navy
Seabee
Brehon B. Somervell
Army Service Forces
Headshoppers Company
Pittsburgh
Foster Wheeler Corporation
Earle M. Mills
Russell Maxwell
Middle East
American Machine and Foundry
Leslie Groves
Remington Rand Band
Pawtucket
R. I
William J. Carter
Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Mackenzie Walton Co
Air Force
C. L. Chennault
Flying Tigers
Civil Air Transport
Hong Kong
China
Pan American World Airways
John H. Towers
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
PAWA
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Philippines
Armed Forces Insurance Underwriters
San Antonio
Alexander A. Vandergrift
Guadalcanal