Nine New U. S. Four-Star Generals Nominated
President Roosevelt nominated nine lieutenant generals to become full four star generals in the U S Army. The officers include Jacob L. Devers Mark W. Clark Walter Krueger Carl Spaatz Joseph T. McNarney Omar N. Bradley Thomas T. Handy Brehon B Somervell and George C Kenney with commands across European Western and Pacific theaters and allied forces.
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Roosevelt
U. S. Army
Jacob L. Devers
6Th Army Group
European
Mark W. Clark
15Th Army Group
Italy
Walter Krueger
6Th Army
Philippines
Carl Spaatz
U. S. Strategic Air Force
Europe
Joseph T. McNarney
Mediterranean
Omar N. Bradley
12Th Army Group
Western Front
Thomas T. Handy
Brehon B. Somervell
Army Service Forces
George C. Kenney
Far East Air Forces
Hendersons blunt report roils White House on Germany plan
Hard boiled Leon Henderson arrived to brief President Roosevelt on Germany after the armistice. He blasted army and state department planning and urged a civilian Allied high commission to run the German economy. He criticized London tripartite schemes and urged civilian control over industry and railways.
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Leon Henderson
Roosevelt
Germany
Henderson
White House
Eisenhower
OPA
State Department
London
FDR
U. S
John Winant
Tripartite Commission
High Commission
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Surrender at Yorktown and birth of the United States
The piece tracks the 1781 Yorktown surrender as a pivotal moment in American nationhood and contrasts early 13 states with a later industrial Russia, warning of a looming Soviet expansion. It discusses electoral voting versus popular vote, and reflects on aviation progress from 25 years prior to the present. It urges confidence and a coordinated reconversion plan to stabilize postwar economy.
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Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Allegheny Mountains
Great Central Continental Valley
Pacific
Philadelphia
France
Spain
England
Russia
America
Wyoming
Nevada
Arizona
Chicago
Arthur Whitten Brown
Brown
Newfoundland
Ireland
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Pilot Miller Receives Four Decorations in One Day
Lt. Kenneth Roy Miller of Hutchinson Kansas is shown after a ceremony at Patuxent River Naval Air Station where he was awarded four decorations in a single day for actions as a navy scout bomber pilot.
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Bert R. Shepard
Germany
Washington Senators
Emer Durrett
Guadalcanal
Brooklyn Dodgers
Bright Whiteside
Boston Red Sox
Joe Stilwell
Washington
Army
Col
Gus Ring
General Stilwell
Stilwell
Henry Wallace
Fred Vinson
Wallace
Jesse Jones
Austin
Vermont
Mexico City
U. S
Kenneth Roy Miller
Hutchinson
Kan
Naval Air Station
Patuxent River
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J. T. McNarney
Thos.t. Handy
B. B. Somervell
Coblenz
Frank J. Calvin
Tucson
Ariz
Krefeld
George A. Kaufman
Fort Smith
Ark
Adolf Hitler
Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Roslyn Steck
Bronx
Puss
Mn-sp
Hitler
Kaiser
G.I. Joe
San Francisco
Sumner Welles
Maryland
Rhode Island
Charles M. Lee
Cumberland
Joseph Mills
Warwick
R. I
Texas
South Carolina
Johnston
Representative Jackson
Iowa
Des Moines Sunday Register
Capitol
Peince
Western Newspaper Union
Siberia
Stalin
Washington, D. C
South Atlantic
South
Midwest
Pacific Coast
North and West Africa
Leo T. Crowley
Christian Valensi
French Supply Council
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