Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ashame in front of God for what I have done when I have died. But if you say to me, 'You do not have any ability to command Japanese Army,' I should say nothing for it. because it is my own nature. Now our war-criminal trial going on in Manila Supreme Court, so I wish to be justify under your kindness and right...
...Blame. The Navy top command had disagreed on disciplinary action. Nimitz said he had wanted to give Captain Charles B. McVay III, skipper of the Indianapolis, nothing worse than a letter of reprimand, "but the Department in Washington saw fit to disregard my recommendation." A compromise had at last been reached...
Said the Navy's personnel chief, Vice Admiral Louis Denfeld: "I question that 'McVay will ever again get a command of great responsibility ... or ever become an admiral...
...Generalissimo's grip on the Army tightened. Royalist Lieut. General Alfredo Kindelan was ordered off to "confinement" in the Canaries, where once the Republic had tried to confine Franco. Franco's old friend Lieut. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz moved into the Chief of Staff post. Command of the Valladolid region went to Don Juan's unfriendly cousin, Francisco Bourbon, Duke of Seville...
...equipment were thus lured into capture. On other occasions, Annie would innocently report "facts" that troubled civilians. Example: the Reich's cartographical institute, said Annie, was short of maps numbered 315 to 318; they were badly needed for national defense. Why, the Germans asked themselves, did the high command need maps of Westphalia, still 300 miles inside the Reich...