Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army buried eight prisoners at Fort Douglas last week, and treated 20 more for wounds, Bushnell General Hospital psychiatrists examined Private Bertucci. Ninth Service Command officers admitted that Bertucci's record already showed two courts-martial, one in England. His own calm explanation seemed a little too simple: he had hated Germans, so he had killed Germans...
...flying from his flagship Enterprise to Ford Island were attacked by Zeros, Halsey exploded: "My God, they're shooting at my own boys! Tell Kimmel." Then it dawned on him: Kimmel already knew, and this was war. Halsey, as senior officer afloat, soon got an order to take command of all U.S. warships then at sea in the Pacific...
...Halsey fleet operation is likely to have a lot of improvisation about it. His directive from Nimitz may require him to strike an island or group of islands and neutralize the air power based there-as last September, when he had his first sea command in more than two years, and Mindanao was the target. That seemed too soft, so he went back and tackled the central Philippines. They, too, seemed soft...
...Chinese people (who called him "Old Leatherface") and to American airmen in his command, the news marked the end of a great era. Closer to Chiang Kai-shek than any U.S. military man, Chennault had, said one Chinese, "endeared himself to China more than any other foreigner since Marco Polo." Said one U.S. pilot: "We would rather fight with Chennault than any other man in the world...
Soldier to Proconsul. In 1937 Wavell returned to the Near East as commander in chief in Palestine and Transjordan, largely stamped out the bloody Jewish-Arab riots. In 1939, he assumed command of the British forces in Egypt. World War II swelled his Egyptian garrison into the Imperial Army of the Nile, an amorphous instrument which he painstakingly fashioned into a weapon that drove the Italians out of Cyrenaica. It was a famous victory at a time when Britain, standing singlehanded against the Axis might, was staggering under successive defeats. For the first time the name of Wavell was heard...