Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen islands) since Dec. 26, when MacArthur declared the Leyte campaign strategically closed and turned over the mop-up (which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which the General displays prominentlv at his thatched headquarters on Leyte...
...Twiggs, whose men had just been told they were going home after 13 months, had all its officers killed or wounded. Pharmacist's Mate Joseph Deworocki took command...
...have a new No. 1 man-and perhaps a new policy-in troubled Italy. Colonel James Henderson Douglas Jr., 46, a Chicago lawyer and businessman now serving in the Air Transport Command, has agreed to resign from the Army Air Forces early this month and join the Allied Commission in Rome...
...most apt to be brass-knuckled. Although commercial fly ing across the Atlantic is brand-new to T.W.A. and American, flying the oceans is old stuff. American, for example, is cur rently flying seven round trips a day over the North Atlantic for the Army's Air Transport Command...
...stirring tribute to the Philippine guerrillas who kept on fighting Japs after the American surrender. The story, which begins with the U.S. Army's defeat on Bataan and ends with its victorious return, is based on actual characters and events. Between defeat and victory the guerrillas, under the command of a U.S. Army colonel (John Wayne), blow up oil fields, steal enemy supplies and finally, on Dday, dynamite a bridge, blockade a road and hold off the Japs until the Army arrives...