Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popping statistics of history's biggest air passenger movement: in a 72-day period up to mid-July, 125,370 military personnel had been flown from the European and Mediterranean theaters to the U.S. They had come in 3,425 heavy bombers and about 600 Air Transport Command planes. The Army thought that virtually all the wounded would be home in a week...
These were the principal shifts fortnight ago, in the biggest command stir-up the Navy has had since the war began. Other changes included handsome Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, 62, who made way for Mitscher and will become superintendent of the Naval Academy, where one of his first big chores will be to bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis...
Their most important and spectacular campaign was against an estimated 30,000 enemy troops on Borneo. It was also their most successful. Under the Corps command of dapper, dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
Wags in the Pacific, only a little more enlightened by last week's air command changes, looked at the overall setup, cracked: "Spaatz will fly to Japan, Nimitz will swim and MacArthur will walk...
Ribbons & Spoils. Next morning the U.S. and British military governments took full command of their respective sectors. (The French had to wait, as guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...