Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved by the Jap High Command early in November 1941 and that the Imperial General Headquarters had set the date...
...Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue lakes to reoccupy Nanking, where Japan's puppets had reigned. It was all done in 22 days. In the same period, the Air Transport Command, loading 80 Chinese into each of its larger C-54s, carried 26,000 men of the Ninety-fourth Army to Shanghai. Soon the Ninety-fourth was on the wing again. This time it was bound for Peiping. At the same time, the Ninety-second Army was flown to Peiping from...
...when U.S. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a brilliant staff man, took over the China Theater from General Joseph W. Stilwell. Its broad purpose was to give China a modern army that could meet the Japanese on equal terms. The work went forward under the title of Chinese Combat Command. It rapidly became one of the most remarkable training projects in military history...
...Victory. The "C.C.C.," as its wits said, was really neither Chinese nor combat nor command. At its top was a red-faced, outspoken, thoroughly able U.S. field officer-Major General Robert Battery McClure, 49, native of Georgia and veteran of Guadalcanal. Under him, from brigadier generals to buck privates, a few thousand U.S. soldiers formed an advisory skeleton within China's new army...
...shipped in the Marine Corps. He was a husky, competent corporal of 22 when he heard his first shot fired in anger. That was at Pearl Harbor. Charles Henry Smith was in the color guard aboard the battleship Maryland when the enemy struck. On the double at the proper command, he manned his antiaircraft...