Redeployment of U.S. troops in Europe was already under way this week. It was not yet the vast movement that will shift the bulk of General Eisenhower's fighting men to the Pacific and the command of General MacArthur. But it was far enough along to require the full-time attention of a major general. The man assigned to superintend the greatest moving day in history was dapper, schoolmasterish Major General Royal B. Lord of the Corps of Engineers.
Engineers to Pacific. First to be shipped from ETO are Eisenhower's highly skilled Army Service Forces Engineer...
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