The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-26

1 plans division, and Clark is chief O staff, army ground forces.
 Clark is a Major General at onl. 46 years of age.
 Clark was announced official! that the American army-ravy miS sion came to London, two monthI after Gen. George Q. Marshall, chic. of staff, to consult with British of ficials on the details of British American military cooperation.
 There was 8 general belief hert that the cooperation envisaged va. of offensive character.
 This belief in unofficial quarters was strengthened by increasing evil dence that Russia needs aid to re' lieve the German pressure on it. sturdy Red army.
 Russia's great Kharkov offensive in which 1t threw its men and ma chimes without stint into battle tC anticipate 8 Ferman spring offen' slve, seemed now at @ stalemate.
 Official military quarters hert were in no position to deny, thougl they by no means confirmed, Ger man claims that up to 100000 Rus sian troops were entrapped on the Kharkov front
 But there were growing indica. tionS that the Germans hoped tt turn their counter offensive in tht Izyum -Barvenkova sector 70 mile! south of Kharkov into real often. sive, and, thus seizlng the initiative get their disrupted spring offensive rolling in 8 desperate bid for victory this year.
 Gigantic Fighting
 Both Russian and German dis. patches emphasized with increasing clarity the gigantic scale of the Kharkov fighting and there were some experts here who believed that the Germans had actually started their great attack.
 In that event, an initial success on the Izyum- -Barvenkova sectoi would be the prelude to g German drive on Rostov on Don and the Caucasus.
 Further, the Germans were evi- dently trying to grab the initiative at several points on the fronts te the north.
 It seemed that they had masset enormous quantities of men anc tanks in the Smolensk- -Vyazlna ares from which they could make di- rect attack on Moscow from the southwest. However, there were signs that here the Germans might be anticipating 8 Russian drive or Smolensk by the forces of Genera Grogori K. Zhukov.
 Axis inspired reports from Stock holm said German troops had at. tackled the Russian line at a point northeast of Orel, midway between Kharkov and Moscow.
 Those who favored an Allied sec- ond front and believed the Amer lean army and navy men were here to talk about 1t, said Russia, sur passing the rosiest hopes of its Allies, had beaten the best of Ger. mans had last Fall, had pushed them back throughout the winter and now had launched 8 costly of- fensive which was forcing the Ger mans to throw in hundreds of thou- sands of reserves intended to smash Russian resistance.
 It was no secret here that the Russians want immediate and biz scale allied help, and not merely ir the form of tanks and planes or oi air raids on German industrial cen- ters.
 Tn the men the United States had now sent to London, military quar- ters said, there had come to Britain officers who would be likely to favor aggressive action ct the earliest pos sible hour.
 Arnold has been in military avia. ton for more than 30 of his 3S years. He Is one of the handful oi men who piloted the flying coffins' of the first army air corps.
 Towers in 1919 led the three navy seaplanes which made the first trans-Atlantic flight. He and hiI comrades left Tespassy Bay, New foundland, May 16, 1919; his NC-4 flew my way of the Azores and Lis bon, Portugal, to reach Plymouth May 3l.
 Two weeks later when Alcock anc A. w. Brown made the first non- stop Atlantic flight from Newfound. land to Ireland for the British Roy. al Air Force.
 It is notable that Towers haI commanded an aircraft carrier.
 General Eisenhower, born at Den- nison, Tex, in addition to serving with the first tanks in the last wal attended the army tank school aftel his return home.
 General Clark, now in charge oi the army ground force section oi the stan was born in New Yorh state. He attended the army infan. try school in 1928.