Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college graduates, but had several years of business experience before enlisting in the Navy. Following enlistment and prior to overseas assignment, they completed a four-month course in the Navy Supply Corps School, which is located at the Business School and is operated by a Navy faculty under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh...
Deadpan, 38-year-old Major General Curtis E. ("The Cigar") LeMay, responsible for the B-29s' hugely successful low-level fire raids, had to give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment...
Cigar-chewing, grey-haired West Pointer Twining is an old footballer, likes to have ex-athletes on his staffs. When he replacedable Curtis LeMay in Guam last week, he said of his new command: "It's like taking over the Notre Dame football team from Knute Rockne...
...Berkey and his successor, Captain Jerauld Wright, made Admiral, and Captain Harold C. Fitz took command. Last March, under Fitz, the Santa Fe with Fitz at the wheel bravely succored the stricken carrier Franklin. Defying exploding ammunition, Fitz laid her alongside, grappled her to the Franklin while he took off wounded and sent fire fighters aboard. After that they sent the Santa Fe home for overhaul. Since March 1943 she had steamed 221,000 miles...
Beginning a new assignment in the Air Transport Command, as he finished his autobiography, Major La Farge was sure at last that he saw a new world of reality ahead for him. He was sure he had said goodbye forever to the un-Grotonian Groton Boy who had long been uncomfortable in both an old school tie and an open-necked shirt...