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Minnesota's Only Three-Star General Fought in Two World Wars Pictures furnished the Morning Tribune by Gen. McNair's sister, Mrs. Nora Jessup, R4, Bloomington CI 7 1 I Minneapolis Morning Tribune July 28, 1944 3 PLANES PLASTER NORMANDY NAZIS Hungary's Largest Factory Bombed LONDON UP) American fighter bombers plastered enemy front line troops, tanks, guns and strong points and canopied United States troops from enemy fighter planes 1 I 4 Thursday in supporting the big' If 's' gest break-through yet made on the. western front, while from Italy 500 American heavies bombed the Manfred Weiss works in Buda pest, largest industrial plant In Hungary. British and Canadians in Nor mandy also had strong support of Typhoons, Spitfires and Mustangs of the RAF.

WEATHER HINDERS Weather stopped the medium bombers from the west and heavy Usl Jv. I I iS? operations were limited to 250 Liberator bombers smashing German air force supply center and communications at the Bel gian cities of Brussels and Gent At midnight "nuisance raiders" were reported over bo-der ter ritory of East Prussia, Budapest, Serge, Maros and Kolozs and over Lipstick Shades to Accent Fashions Elizabeth Arden $1.50 10 TAX EXTRA Matching or accenting Lipstick shades to go with every costume. In twenty-five utterly different colors from pink to purplish reds. Soft, satiny Lipsticks that stay on. Refills in all shades.

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PERSHING During World tear I when he teas 55 years old, McNair was the youngest general in the American Expeditionary forces. This picture, taken at the front in France, shoves him being decorated by Gen. Pershing. LAST rHOTO OF SLAIX GENERAL Only a few days before he teas killed in battle Normandy Lt. Gen.

Lesley J. McXair struck this pose for an army signal corps camera man. McNALR AT AGE OF 10 He attended Garfield grade and South high schools in Afin-veapohs. the enemy produced fighter opposition which wilted considerably under a loss of 12 out of 80. There were no Allied losses.

NAZI VIM RENEWED PICK, SHOVEL MAN McNair Unable to Visit Sisters on Trip Here Last Year Increased enemy fighter opposition on practically every front 4711 tied in Verndale, to oper and Mrs. Harry Naftalin, Continued From Page One irom XNormanay to fioesu was considered significant. grade and South high schools, where he always received high marks. But when the was 15 years old, he made up his mind to ate a general merchandise store, was ill in California. A brother.

'3HM Front reports said there had Murray M. McNair. 56, lives in Lt. Gen. Lesley J.

McNair, killed in action in France, visited Minneapolis on a military mission late last year but urgency of his call made it impossible for him to visit with his two sisters, Mrs. Nora Jessup, Rt. 4, Bloomington, oeen a considerable increase Humboldt avenue S. Mrs. Jessup said Thursday night that the family members were all together shortly before the war started when James McNair, their father, who had set- Richmond, Calif.

"Whitey was a persistent young German fighter bomber activity but there was no explanation for the increase after the Nazi air force's long stretch of playing ster," Mrs. Jessup recalled. "His boyhood ambition was to enter Annapolis and he would have done dead. HIGHEST RANKING CASUALTY so had not Fred G. Coburn of Duluth received the appointment." Out of Town Customers Add 30c Fostafe Her brother, she pointed out, Iff was the alternate.

"Just the same," Mrs. Jessup continued, "he passed the tests with flying colors and later was offered the opportunity to enter ALL RUBBER PARIS GARTERS make the navy his career. "Dad thought it a good idea, to," she said, "and Lesley was given special tutoring for the appointment. Although he left high school, he never missed high school baseball games. ARDENT BASEBALL FAN "lie was extremely fond of baseball and while waiting for the examinations to be graded the Annapolis tests were over a year's period he would haunt your newspaper row to follow the ups and downs of his favorite teams." The family lived at Twenty-third street and what is now Elliot avenue in those days and, according to his sister, Gen.

McNair's penchant for carpentry was evidenced in his continual rebuilding of a playhouse the children had in the back yard. "But he really started his car er, missing off Midway June 7, 1942; Brig. Gen. Asa N. Duncan, missing off the European coast Nov.

17, 1942; Brig. Gen. Don F. Pratt, killed in France on D-day and Brig. Gen.

Nelson M. Walker who died July 10 of wounds received in France. Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt died of a heart attack in France and seven other generals have been killed in plane crashes.

Thirteen general officers are prisoners of the WASHINGTON C3 One of the three top-ranking deputies to Gen. George C. Marshall during the building of the army, Gen. Lesley McNair was the highest-ranking American officer to lose his life in action thus far in this war. Lt.

Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commander of U. S. forces in the European theater, was killed in a plane crash in Iceland May 23, 1943.

Generals killed in action have been Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tink 100 75' and the academy. "In the meantime he had heard that United States fcrn-ators were to make appointments to West Point and to Annapolis.

He asked the late Sen. Knute Nelson for the West Point appointment before the Annapolis decision was made final. "On Aug. 1, 1900, he and James B. Woolnough became the first senatorial appointees from Minnesota, but Whitey was again in He then would go on to explain that to him weapons are tools, and learning to be a soldier is a matter of learning to use those tools.

It was his rock-bottom principle that the way to learn to use tools is to use them. It is a little-known fact that the hard-boiled but soft-spoken man ho trained the army ground forces, raising them up from a rather motley mob of civilians to a force 7,700,000 strong, able to make their mark under baptism of fire, was full of doubts about his success. TALKED WITH CIS Embarkation points for troops going overseas are very secret places, so few outside the service knew that McNair haunted them. Going along among the GI Joes, taking their salutes and then quietly ordering them at ease, McNair asked thousands of soldiers this simple question: "Do you feel you're ready for it?" He probed their minds for answers to his training problems. It was a man-to-man proposition.

"Do you feel there was anything left out of jour training?" His advice to soldiers, "hale, fight and kill," once stirred controversy. In recent months McNair felt the job of training had been pretty well done. "But it certainly took us long enough," he rebuked himself. To some McNair seemed cold and a bit remote. The fact that he was slightly deaf may have strengthened the impression.

His deafness, caused originally by getting too close to artillery fire, was more pronounced after he Mas wounded in Africa. Army ground forces headquarters, actually the training command until our armies had been built, la somewhat "off the campus" in Washington and McNair was no hand to go over to the Pentagon building to meet the press. REMOTENESS EVAPORATED the alternate spot. His high grades of staff of general headquarters at Washington and took command of the army ground forces in March, 1942, when the army general staff was streamlined. He leaves a ife, who lives at the Army War college in Washington, and a son, Lt.

Col. Douglas McNair, serving with tank forces overseas. pentry while we lived at Verndale," she recalled. "When Lesley was missing, we knew that he would be in nearby Waseca getting odds and ends in lumber. "As we grew older, the playhouses got bigger so we could still use them.

That continued until he left for West Point." SON IN SERVICE The general's favorite branch of in the preliminary tests, however, won his appointment to the military school." Mrs. Jessup recalled the general's school days at Garfield Face Flattering Primrose House Chiffon Powder $1 :0 TAX EXTRA A light-textured Powder that imparts a soft dull finish to the skin a Powder that lasts for hours. In seven shades: Rachel, Natural. Rose Beige, Brunette, Rose Petal, Beige and Bandana. DAI TON Tullt-trlet Main rioor military service was the tank destroying corps, and to that com mand went his son.

Col. Douglas Crevier McNair, now 36. Mrs. Jessup's favorite story of Lt. Gen.

McNair concerns his housing problem during the Persh ing expedition to Mexico in 1916. "He built his own house, mak ing the building blocks himself," Freakish Fran Sports Iron Cross for Flying Inside Robot Bomb LONDON CP) Berlin radio said Thursday Mrs. Hanna Reisch had been awarded the iron cross first class for flying inside an experimental robot bomb unloaded and instrument-less during 1942 test flights. She was seriously injured, said the radio, despite an emergency landing device affixed to the robot and oespite her extraordinary physiological characteristics." The tests were designed to learn why the robots lost their wings after short flights, Berlin broadcast, and "Frau Reisch made the flights in a nearly horizontal position, gazing through a periscope. "Her robot had no instruments but was aimed to hit a target without human direction.

After four days of tests the trouble was found but she was seriously injured." Mrs. Reisch. said the radio, was a "biological phenomenon Insensible to pressure who attained more than 500 miles an hour diving In gliders." she said. "Then he wrote his wife to send him a few window case ments so that he could finish the job as he had scoured his immediate vicinity without finding any to know about Russian methods, you can bet. At a high command conference Thursday, before McNair's death was announced the question of whether his exact assignment might be revealed was discussed.

It was decided the information might aid the Germans, and the story will have to wait. The decision does not ban speculation. It is well known that Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt have agreed that top commands in any theater are to be assigned to generals of the country supplying the preponderance of soldiers. BEST MAN GONE It also is known that the United States will have the preponderance of ground forces in France. It is not concealed that the army feels the death of Gen.

McNair has cost it the man best fitted for an overall ground forces command. McNair was graduated from West Point in 1904. He was an artillery observer in France in i913 prior to the last war; accompanied the Funston expedition to Vera Cruz in 1914, and served wilh the punitive expedition In Mexico In 1917 before returning to France with the First division of the AEF. He won the distinguished service medal for his work in gunnery during the last war. SERVED IN HAW AH He was assigned to Hawaii in 1921 and subsequently served as professor of military science at Purdue university; the army war college at Washington; the field artillery school at Ft.

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1 1 r- In McNair's corner office at the big War building the of rrtuote nes quickly evaporated. Seated behind lils big desk a special telephone at his right hand directly connected with Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff McNair talked with easy freedom, warmth and a degree of humor. He had a deep admiration for the Russian infantryman.

It dated back before predictions of early victory for Germany over Russia, and the unbreakable toughness and ultimate success of the Russian army were no surprise to McNair. The story lhat the American high command was getting no Information about Russian methods always amused McNair as, with an intentionally telltale twinkle in his eye, he confirmed it. LIKED RUSSIAN IDEA In Russia Lf you talk too much you get shot. In England they put you in jaiL In America they get very indignant with you. There's something to be said for the Russian method." McNair once said.

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