Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo, Yamashita's wife rejected a suggestion that she appeal to Mrs. Douglas MacArthur. Said she: "The American method of justice is admirably fair. I am pleased with it. I thought my husband should be put on trial . . . because he took command ... in the front." This did not mean that Mrs. Yamashita, too, condemned her husband; she was merely answering a question politely, like a Japanese lady...
...time he was dressed, his senior subordinates were recommending that the ship be abandoned. Scrappy Captain McVay, who won the Silver Star for gallantry as second in command of the cruiser Cleveland in the Solomons, was not convinced at first. The court must decide whether his delay in issuing the order increased the ghastly loss of life...
Plan Green. The documents piled up. Hitler had announced his "unalterable decision to smash Czechoslovakia," and the docile High Command promptly prepared for a blitz invasion according to Plan Green. D-day had been set for Oct. 1, 1938 and preparations had been made against possible reprisals on the part of France. Hitler was fully prepared to risk war. Cololnel General Alfred Jodl (who liked to compare his Führer to Napoleon) personally drew up a plan to bomb Prague without warning...
Under Vargas, Gomes rapidly made himself his country's leading expert on aviation. He organized Brazil's military airmail routes, agitated for a strong air arm. As World War II came to the Americas, he took command of the air force on northeastern Brazil's strategic bulge. A little later, while American engineers and Brazilian laborers feverishly hacked out bases in the jungle for the vital air route to North Africa, Gomes backed them up with all his might...
Naval aviators have been struggling for years to break the battleship admirals' stranglehold on topside jobs. This week, in a command shake-up being rigged for public announcement, they saw their hopes fulfilled...