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Show to secure the greatest efficiency and striking power. Formerly, the chief of staff of the army would, on the outbreak of war, go to the battlefront to carry out previous prepared plans. However, when we suddenly found ourselves at war with three powerful pow-erful nations, it was impossible for the chief of staff to go to the battlefront bat-tlefront because our battlefront extended all around the world. Thus, the chief of staff has for the past few months been forced to slay in Washington: there he is worried with both the task of making the war plans and handling hand-ling routine administrative problems. - j l(1 i i i i i i i i i i FORWARD MARCH By II. S. Sims, Jr. f I t I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 GENERALS MARSHALL, MoNAlR. ARNOLD, SOMERVELL President Franklin Roosevelt, as commander-in-chcif of the U. S. armed forces, has reorganized the army and the navy in order Oorge C. Mai shall, chief of I staff, has been placed under the I reorganized setup over three subordinates sub-ordinates of equal responsibility: I.t. Gen. Leslie J. MeNair. Lt. Gen. Hemy H. Arnold, and Major Gen. Erehon B. Somervell. (ien. MeNair is in charge of all . y round opeial'ions. including the : infantry, artillery, armored divisions, di-visions, cavalry, etc. He supersedes super-sedes the various bureaus which have been accused of so much rivalry ri-valry in the past. Gen. Arnold is in charge of all air operations. Air operations are now on an equal footing with all ground operations, j Gen. Somervell is in charge of ; the service of supplying both the ground and air forces. He directs supplies and transportation, and is responsible only to Gen. Marshall, Mar-shall, the chief of staff. Gen. George C. Marshall is 61 years old and has been in the army 1-10 years. He is a graduate of Vir- somebody else may stop the Nazis I in Europe, but strategy for win-1 ning the war on all fronts depends on Marshall, MeNair, Arnold, and I Somervell. j World War. Arnold's grin never quite disappears; disap-pears; he is known as "Happy." He is a picturesque flier, but his fight for air power has almost cost him his job on numerous occasions. Maj. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell is only 49;' he won a citation for the speed with which he put up buildings for soldiers in this war. He is a veteran engineer of the supply division in the first World War. Somervell was an honor student at command and staff schools and also "studied at the army war college. Has been referred to as a "WPA guy" because he was granted grant-ed a leave of absence to act as WPA administrator in New York state. He is a crack expert in procurement and construction in military lines. These are the four big men of the army. Their names will not, however, come before the public as heroes; they will form a strategy stra-tegy from arm chairs in Washington. Washing-ton. The leaders of the army at the various battlefronts will become the public heroes. MacArthur may beat the Japs in Australia, and ginia Military Institute, not Westi Point. He is the man who set the stage for. the Meuse-Argonne offensive of-fensive in the World War by moving mov-ing 600,000 men at night. Marshall also served in the Philippines: he spent three years in China. He is a lanky, freckled infantryman, who resembles General Gen-eral John J. Pershing in his way of dressing and his sense of discipline. disci-pline. He is an infantryman of the old school, yet, under him, the air force has attained a status equal to that of the ground forces. Lt. Gen. Leslie J. MeNair is 59 years od; he is the one who lectured lectur-ed on the other generals on their mistakes in the 1941 maneuvers. He has been an outspoken critic of the army; now he is in the position posi-tion to correct the army which he says is not a first class fighting force. MeNair is an artilleryman. He saw service in the first World War in Prance, where he won a medal for - "correctly estimating the changing conditions and requirements require-ments of military tactics." For the ,past two years he has been the man who would lead a large expeditionary expe-ditionary force if one should be sent abroad. Lt. Gen. Henry II. Arnold is 55; he is considered the father of the army air force. He was taught to fly in 1911 by the Wright Brothers and was one of the five officers in i the army air force before the United States entered the first |