Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Took part in various conferences concerning the forthcoming Pacific command...
...combat command of the 11th Armored Division, ripping through a parallel corridor, roared up to the Rhine at Brohl and Andernach. They picked up a German major general, his staff and 3,300 men plus a ferry, intact. West of the Rhine they curved northward, met the First Army's southward drive, snapped the handcuffs on more than 40,000 pocketed Germans. Patton's men had Coblenz surrounded and were flattening other pockets back against the Moselle...
...Sacred River. The wiping out of the Wesel bridgehead brought Eisenhower's armies up to a practically unbroken 150-mile front on the Rhine, from Nijmegen to Coblenz. The amazing U.S. crossing at Remagen was a great credit, not only to the local heroes, but to the Supreme Commander himself, who had passed word down the chain of command to be alert for any opportunity and aggressive to seize...
Weakness v. Strength. The German High Command also had to watch Germany's north coast. At Yalta, the Big Three had promised blows on the Reich from "east, west, north and south." Last week in the U.S., an editorial in the Army and Navy Journal said that "the details and the preparations for execution [of an amphibious invasion of Germany] have been worked out," and speculated that the operation might be commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery, with Monty's armies in the west passing to the command of Lieut. General Omar Bradley...
...meet any fear the Communists may have, the Government has expressed its willingness ... to place an American general in command of the Communist forces, under my overall command as supreme commander. . . . The Communists have, however, rejected all offers...