Normandy Line-Up

General Eisenhower, who knows the value of a soldier's pride in his outfit, had started a new kind of deal. U.S. divisions in Normandy were named almost as soon as they were "compromised" (i.e., identified) by the Germans. By last week, Eisenhower's censors had also released the names of most of the top commanders in Lieut. General Omar Bradley's U.S. First Army. General Bradley's Army includes the V Corps, under Major General Leonard T. ("General Gee") Gerow, 1943 commander of U.S. ground forces in Britain, and the VII Corps, under crisp, enthusiastic Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, former commander of the 25th Division, which relieved the Marines on Guadalcanal.* Other commanders:

P: 1st Division: Major General Clarence R. Huebner, 55, who turned down a West Point appointment to enlist, rose from the ranks. He was a company cook at Fort Logan, Colo, in 1910, climbed to lieutenant colonel commanding an infantry battalion (in the ist Division) in World War I.

P: 4th Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician.

P: 9th Division: Major General Manton S. Eddy, 52, 6 ft. 2, 210 lbs.; a stickler for detail and physical conditioning, who used to run his officers daily over a five-mile course in Africa to keep them in trim.

P: 29th Division: Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, 49, West Pointer, cavalryman, son of a U.S. general; an expert marksman who once challenged any man in the division to a shooting match with rifle or pistol for a $2 side bet.

P: 79th Division: Major General Ira T. Wyche, 56, pocket-size (5 ft. 6, 135 lbs.) West Pointer; a field artilleryman in World War I.

P: 82nd Airborne: Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 49, West Pointer, first U.S. commander to lead an airborne division into action (in Sicily); he jumped with his outfit into Normandy (he prefers parachuting to glider landing).

P: 101st Airborne: Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor, 42-year-old West Pointer, best known for his dangerous mission to Rome to negotiate armistice details with Marshal Badoglio just before the landing at Salerno.

The U.S. 2nd Division has also been identified in Normandy, but its commander has not been announced.

* Arriving with the 25th at South Pacific headquarters, Collins told Admiral Halsey his division could be ready for battle in two weeks. Said Halsey: "You've got 36 hours." In 36 hous, the 25th had been briefed, was repacked, ready.

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