Posted on 12/07/2014 4:32:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
I didn’t read the full paper, but I loved the title of the article on page 1:
“Spitfires strafe leftists in Athens”
Ah, those were the days...
97 Generals Confirmed
General is a four star General Officer rank, and the highest rank attainable by an officer besides the wartime-only General of the Army rank. The Army can have a maximum of seven four-star generals at any one time, with several of these slots filled permanently, like the Army Chief of Staff, who is a four-star general. A General typically has over 30 years of Army experience, and commands all operations taking place within their geographical area.
A four-star general is nominated for office by the President, and must be confirmed for duty by the Senate before they may begin their term of service. All four-star general ranks are temporary, and are tied to the positions held by the General. Four-star generals must retire after 40 years of service or after their 64th birthday, although this deadline can be extended by the Army Chief of Staff or the President.
General is the 28th rank in the United States Army, ranking above Lieutenant General and directly below General of the Army. A general is a General Officer at DoD paygrade O-10, with a starting monthly pay of $15400.80.
Lieutenant General is a three-star General Officer rank, one pay grade above the highest permanent rank of Major General. Lieutenant General is a temporary position reserved for times of war, and expires with the end of the general’s active tour of duty, usually 3 to 5 years. A Lieutenant General commands a corps-sized units of 20,000 to 45,000 soldiers, or occasionally as a senior staff officer or department head in various domestic and overseas headquarters.
Lieutenant General is the 27th rank in the United States Army, ranking above Major General and directly below General. A lieutenant general is a General Officer at DoD paygrade O-9, with a starting monthly pay of $13469.70.
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What is a Major General?
Major General is a two-star General Officer rank, and the highest permanent peacetime rank in the Army. A Major General commands a division-sized unit of 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers.
A Major General can only be appointed through a stringent process of nomination and review by multiple offices and promotion boards. Officers receiving a commission as Major General are required to retire after five years of commission, or after 35 years of total service, unless promoted or reappointed.
Major General is the 26th rank in the United States Army, ranking above Brigadier General and directly below Lieutenant General. A major general is a General Officer at DoD paygrade O-8, with a starting monthly pay of $9530.70.
A Brigadier General is a one-star General Officer grade rank, and the lowest-ranking of the General Officer ranks. A Brigadier General serves as the advisor and Deputy Commander to a Major General commanding a division-sized unit of 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers, and assists in overseeing the tactical planning and coordination of division operations.
Brigadier General is the 25th rank in the United States Army, ranking above Colonel and directly below Major General. A brigadier general is a General Officer at DoD paygrade O-7, with a starting monthly pay of $7919.10
Once more, if I may.
Pics from the Past of WWII- It is amazing the difference in 70 years.
HOLD AND DRAG YOUR MOUSE ARROW GENTLY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL 1944 PHOTOS AND IT WILL BECOME THE EXACT SAME LOCATION TODAY .... DRAG IT BACK OVER AND YOU ARE IN 1944 AGAIN. Then page down for next photo.
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http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday
359,247 War Prisoners Here
The War Department stated today that 359,247 prisoners of war were held within the United Sates Dec 1. They included 305,648 Germans, 51,156 Italians and 2,443 Japanese.
“After the war, the personnel files of all POWs were returned to the country for which they fought.”
An interesting blog here regarding interment camps which is different than POW camps. He does document his statements but there is a bias which may be justified.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2001/12/gary-north/state-kidnapping/
1) The purpose of the internment camps were national security AND prisoner exchange? That is a new thought to me. Many were Germans and Japanese from Latin America?
2) In 1944 the US drafted all Japanese in interment camps? About 300 refused to be inducted. The 300 were viewed as traitors by the rest of the internees? I didn’t know it was draft, thought it was volunteer.
3) Many Jewish Germans were returned to the Nazis in prisoner exchange?
You won’t read this perspective about the interment camps in the media
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780203088203
Book Review:
To locate Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese descent willing to be repatriated, during early 1942 the United States government gathered approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans into relocation centers. .......
.... It provides compelling evidence that the war relocation centers were created and administered in a manner that sought to satisfy Japan’s concerns over reciprocity and its subsequent demand that the U.S. government provide for the safely and well-being of the Japanese, even those who had refused repatriation....
...........Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese authorities while visiting Japan as tourists, conducting business, teaching English or carrying out missionary work. The same amount of Japanese citizens living illegally in the United States had to be repatriated to secure the Americans’ release.
JAPAN: American troops waging war against Japan in the Pacific have come to know one Japanese voice better than any other. It belongs to “Tokyo Rose”, an American citizen of Japanese parentage featured in regular propaganda broadcasts to the Allied troops by the Japanese Broadcasting Company. Her message is not always very subtle; in a sexy, sultry voice she tells the GIs that the girls they left behind are being unfaithful. “Rose’s” real name is Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino.
There was no one specific Tokyo Rose. The moniker applied to about twelve English-speaking women broadcasters on the air. But Toguri became the most famous Tokyo Rose after the war.
More at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino
Toykio Rose and Major Cousens. Reading a little more about these people, what would we have done in their place?
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cousens-charles-hughes-9842
Appointed captain in the Australian Imperial Force on 1 July 1940, Cousens was posted to the 2nd/19th Battalion. He had command of a rifle company in Malaya when Japan entered the war in December 1941. Badly burnt when demolishing a village, he rejoined his battalion for the fighting on Singapore Island. His commanding officer and the troops commended his leadership in action, and he was promoted temporary major on 13 February 1942.
Soon after the capitulation on 15 February, A.I.F. headquarters in Malaya inadvertently revealed to the Japanese that Cousens had been a radio announcer. He refused to broadcast on their behalf while in Changi prison. Taken alone from a prison-camp in Burma, he was shipped at the end of July to Japan. There, under threat and fear of torture and death (as he would always claim), he wrote propaganda scripts, ‘coached’ English-speaking Japanese announcers and made short-wave broadcasts over Radio Tokyo. He maintained that the broadcasts were of minimal use to the Japanese, and that he had frequently sabotaged them by subtle ridicule and by inserting information useful to the Allies. Cousens also worked on a propaganda programme, ‘Zero Hour’, and chose as its main presenter an American woman of Japanese parentage—Iva Toguri (later d’Aquino), the misnamed ‘Tokyo Rose’—who tried to help him undermine the broadcasts.
Following the Japanese surrender, Cousens was interrogated and brought home to Sydney under arrest. Because no Commonwealth legislation covered treasonable acts committed abroad, he was charged in New South Wales under the English statute, 25 Edw.III (1351). The gravest crime of all, treason was a capital offence. A magistrate’s inquiry began in Sydney on 20 August 1946. Although Cousens had his critics, support for him firmed with the news that the Crown was depending heavily on the evidence of two Japanese who had worked with him. He was committed for trial, but the State’s attorney-general C. E. Martin dropped the charge on 6 November.
The Zero Hour
http://ironicamericanhistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/zero-hour.html
Cousens convinced Tsuneishi that such amazing stories were evidence of Japanese invincibility. The tactic of using Japanese military arrogance as a comedy ploy worked.
“2 LT Cols”
Recon patrol to understand first hand what was out there. These guys were probably Captains when the War started and do not yet understand their new roles, also.
It’s about to get really ugly. Germans are terrified at this point.
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