Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard Law Montgomery stood in the door of his motor van and demanded icily : "What do you want?" Facing him, beside a copse of silvery birches on the bleak, rolling moorland of Lüneberg Heath- where the Wehrmacht used to hold maneuvers- stood four German officers: the Commander in Chief of the German Navy, the Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht command in the north, and two members of their staffs...
Said the Hamburg radio: Hitler died "at his command post in the Reich Chancellery, fighting the Russians to the last...
...Allied command, in uniform and out, might have wasted Allied superiority in attacks that were costly and futile, delivered too soon or too late, at ineffective places or without proper preparation. They might also have lost the war by failing to cope with critical enemy attacks, such as the U-boat campaign...
...conquest, had overlooked the little matter of the actual invasion of Britain. Last week Rundstedt, comparing the German landing barges to those used by the Allies in Normandy, referred to the German craft as "apple barges." He added that as far as he knew, the German High Command's reason for abandoning the invasion of Britain was fear of the British fleet...
West Pointer Darby was a soldier's soldier, undismayed by his command's suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...