Military talent needs in the wartime recruitment drive
A fragmentary account describes requests from the War, Navy, and State Departments for individuals with technical military backgrounds and language skills. It notes preference for scholars fluent in Korean, Burmese, Siamese, Danish, Slovak, and Croatian translation abilities, to fill roles that require translation and linguistic work.
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Navy Department
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Navy
State Department
Senate
Quarles Named State Guard Officer and Expert Virulent Disease Field
Lt Col George P Quarles of Elma was named exc officer and training head for the Alabama State Guard, veteran of National Guard service, with a four year Army duty tour. He is an honors graduate of VM and a fluent Portuguese reader speaker. A War Department order seeks Americans with epidemiology and chemotherapy knowledge, protozoan infection expertise, and Hindi language skill for diagnosis and control work.
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Alabama State Guard
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Britain's O'Conner Gentle General Is Tough Tank Expert
A profile of General O'Connor, a tough, precise tank commander with a lean, professorlike face, a career spanning World Wars I and II, and a history of conflict and caution in frontline leadership. The piece notes his education at Wellington and Sandhurst, honors, and role as military governor of Jerusalem, plus his cool, offhand confidence when discussing invasion plans.
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William Smith White
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Escelic
Wellington College
Sandhurst Royal Military College
Jerusalem
Gen
O’connor
England
O'Connor
Montgomery
Churchill
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