Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less concentrated, targets. And the same fate was in store for other Japanese cities. As LeMay spoke, his staff and the Japs were both computing the results of the B-29s' first smash at Yokohama-in which 450 planes dropped 3,200 tons of incendiaries. The 21st Bomber Command said 6.9 sq.mi. of the great seaport city was burned out; the Japs said 60,000 homes were destroyed. Next on the B-29s' list was industrial Kobe, which caught another 3,000-ton load of U.S. fire bombs...
Major Way Stations. The Philippines, notably Luzon, have land masses which were marked, even before Bataan and Corregidor fell, as inevitable staging areas for armies about to descend upon Japan. Yet the U.S. command had only the most tenuous contact with the Philippines two years ago, by submarine or occasional U.S. aircraft landing on a secret strip on Mindanao...
...Chinese side, Generalissimo Chiang streamlined the command of his field forces, began to clean up the worst abuses of a chain-gang system of local conscription. Now the Generalissimo works out basic strategy with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell...
When the Southeast Asia Command was set up (1943), Lord Louis Mountbatten chose Wedemeyer as his U.S. aide. At first the Southeast Asia Command looked like a dead end to Wedemeyer. Then one morning last October, he was handed a sealed envelope. He had been chosen U.S. Commander in Chief of the China Theater...
...Apostles He said to them: 'I will make you to be fishers of men.' . . . When the heavens open and the storms let loose, the fisherman beholds as does no one else the awful majesty of nature . . . and the ears of faith hear once again the old command. 'Peace, be still...