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> The Senate confirmed rank of lieutenant general for Armored Forces' Chief Jacob L. Devers, making his rank equal to that of Air Forces' H. H. Arnold, Ground Forces' Lesley J. McNair, Services of Supply's Brehon B. Somervell. On the same day, Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce of the Tank Destroyer Command, Camp Hood, Texas (TIME, July 13) became a major general.
> When Rear Admiral John Towers became a vice admiral fortnight ago and was relegated to the Pacific (TIME, Sept. 28), Flyer Ralph E. Davison, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, became...
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