Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon had been missing for eight weeksthe 17th U.S. air general to become a casualty in World War IIand his fast-growing U.S. Air Force in the Pacific was still without a permanent boss. Last week the Army airmen in the Pacific got one. Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, 52, ranking member of the Army's only set of general twins,* cleared out his desk in the Pentagon Building and went off to what will become the biggest air-combat job left in World War II.
Capable, good-natured Barney Giles had left one of the most important staff jobs...
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