Where Are They Now?

ARMY & NAVY

Whither had the captains departed? Where were the generals and admirals whom war had made famous?

Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings--to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches.

The Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, hero of the Philippines, had turned in his uniform and was living in retirement in San Antonio. The Marine Corps' fire-eating General "Howlin' Mad" Smith had holed up in La Jolla, Calif.

Many a retiring general and admiral had landed a snug industrial job: the Seabees' Admiral Ben Moreell, onetime Coal Administrator, as chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.; the Army Service Forces' General Brehon Somervell as president of Koppers Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, at a $75,000 salary; wartime ordnance chief Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr. as an International Harvester Co. vice president; Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle as vice president of Shell Union Oil Corp.

The aviation industry had bid heavily for the war-taught savvy of top-ranking officers: A.T.C.'s Lieut. General Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association.

There were many still on duty, still in good jobs. General Courtney Hodges was still commanding the First Army--but at Governors Island, N.Y. In Baltimore, Lieut. General Al Wedemeyer was finding it so hard to keep busy as commander of the Sixth Army that he was begging friends in Washington to come up and lunch with him. And among the shady hackberry trees and smooth lawns of San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, General Jonathan Wainwright, commanding the Fourth Army, had plenty of time to remember Jap shells.

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