Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand strategy of the war will not be altered, and the top U.S. generals and admirals will remain in command. Cf The United Nations must remain united for peace...
...Germans admitted that such a linking of the Allies could take place any day; they prepared for it by setting up two autonomous defense zones in the two-fifths of Germany they have left. For the southern zone, including the Nazi "redoubt," or Alpine bastion, command was vested in a triumvirate: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring; Gestapo boss Heinrich Himmler; Nazi party boss Martin Bormann. Adolf Hitler was not mentioned. Military operations in the northern zone were handed to Field Marshal Ernst Busch, but he will be kept in line by a trusted Nazi, Helmuth Friedrichs, holding direct command...
...Nazis had managed to increase airplane production in the late months of 1944, after dispersing and hiding their assembly plants. They now evidently had more planes than they could fuel. The German High Command may have decided to toss the Luftwaffe on the funeral pyre, along with everything else...
Over the radio came a message from Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. Alexander: "The moment now has come for us to take the field for the last battle which will end the war in Europe." The French high-command added a word: their troops were attacking along the Italo-French border to strike for the German rear...
...Reports. Several factors had ordained secrecy about the Kamikaze attacks. At first they were made by only one or two planes at a time; they might have been merely a show of fatal bravado by individual Jap airmen. Obviously no suicide pilot ever returned to report. The Jap command had no way of knowing how the attacks turned out, and the Navy took pains not to tell...