Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Board had gone out of its way to light up the muddle made by divided command-an issue more important than its showing that stupidity had been countenanced and even rewarded, that military intelligence had been mishandled. The proposal to combine all U.S. fighting services in one department -which the Army advocates, the Navy mortally hates & fears-was before Congress. The Army Board had already made the first cogent argument in the debate...
...Lieut. General George Grunert, 64, who enlisted in 1898, served in the Far East, won the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I; onetime commanding general of the Philippine Department, was most recently commanding general of the Eastern Defense Command...
...Laconic, independent Major General Walter Hale ("Tony") Frank, 59. West Pointer, onetime air officer at Hickam Field, Hawaii, was chief of the Air Service Command in England until he was sent back to service at home...
...month after he took command, the division captured Buna and MacArthur had his foothold on the north coast. The men of the 32nd, who called their division cemetery ''Eichelberger Square." then went on to fight the coastal campaign and the battle of the Philippines. This week they had their greatest hour of triumph when General Yamashita walked into their lines...
After Buna, Eichelberger trained troops in Australia until he got back into action again at Hollandia, took the vital New Guinea port with deftness and speed. The Japs were hit where they weren't at Hollandia, but there were enough stray units around to infiltrate Eichelberger's command post by night...