Military attaches

I told Pinkerton I wanted to see something of the Lebanese Army, and he said he would arrange for the military attache to introduce me to the commanding general. 

My trip to Qatana was made in a legation car—a black Chevrolet with which I was to become much more closely acquainted later on—driven by the assistant military attach. ... 

I telephoned to the embassy the man who answered the phone could speak only broken English—very broken. No, the ambassador was not there. No, the first secretary was not there. No, the military attach was not there. Is there any American officer there No, all gone. Call tomorrow. Maybe somebody come tomorrow. 

I lunched that day with Colonel Bill Sexton, the military attache of the embassy. I ought to point out that the American ambassador at Teheran does not take his military advice from either of the two chiefs of the U.S. military missions ac-... 

Major Sanderson was at the Damascus airport to meet me. Colonel Shipp, the military attach at Bagdad, who had been most kind to me there, had come along to have a talk with Colonel McGrath. We all drove to the legation together. 

We called first at the British Legation to pick up Norman Fox, of H.M. foreign service, who was a good friend of Sandy s and had expressed a desire to thumb a ride to Amman. We had also planned to give a ride to Major Beaumont Nesbitt, son of my old friend Major General Paddy Beaumont Nesbitt, who had been British military attache in Washington during the early part of the war. Fox said we d have some... 

Rome was still thickly plastered with political posters from the recent election, in which the Communists had been so soundly licked. As I intended to return to Rome later, and was leaving for Trieste next day, I did not try to arrange any interviews. I called at the embassy, got some mail from home, and asked the acting military attache. Colonel Glawe, to telephone the commanding general at Trieste to say that I was flying up there the next day and hoped to have a chance to talk with him. 

From 1882, he was major of the Corps, and secretary of the Lighthouse Board, Washington DC. From 1883 to 1886 he was chief engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department, reorganizing and improving the city s water system. He made from 1888 to 1893 river and lighthouse woiL on the Great Lakes, and then was military attache of the US Embassy in London UK. 

British Army Staff Washington to War Office, 29 June 1944 Military Attache Chungking to War Office, 5 July 1944 COS(44)226th meeting, 7 July 1944, PRO, WO 106/4594A WO 208/3044 CAB 79/77. 

Loucks did not become a member of the American Special Observer Group (SPOBS), which was organized in England prior to the United States entry into the war, but in February 1942 his successor as military attache. Col. Carl L. Marriott, was also designated Chemical Officer, United States Army Forces in the British Isles (USAFBI), the first official American command in Europe, in fact a redesignation of SPOBS. Marriott thus assumed the duties of reporting, still principally... 

Military Attaches and all War Department Missions and Groups on duty outside con tinental United States May 1944 to November 194 also includes all missions and groups under the jurisdiction of the Commanding Generals, Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, or Army Service Forces. 

Shortly before the United States entered the war, the Americans and British began to exchange information on chemical warfare through the U.S. Assistant Military Attache in London and representatives of the British Purchasing Commission in America. After American forces arrived in the British Isles in 1942, CWS personnel could visit British installations and learn at first hand what the British were doing. 

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