Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston and many another U.S. community where ham for Easter is a tradition, it was a hamless Easter. But thousands of German prisoners of war in the Boston area were luckier. The First Service Command served them ham at Easter Sunday supper...
...headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker); and articulate, blue-eyed, fast-talking Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George, 51, who runs the world's biggest airline, the Army's Air Transport Command...
...troubled War Department hastily went into reverse. On a technicality-that Major General Sherman Miles of the First Service Command had not been legally authorized to convene the court-the War Department vacated the case, rescinded the sentence, sent the four WACs back to their posts...
...German High Command still seemed to have a plan, political or military or both; it still seemed able to find fighting men to carry...
...Payoff. The German command reacted as if. the capture of Merkers and its mine had been so much salt in the Wehrmacht's deep wounds. Near Mühlhausen, about 30 miles northeast, the Germans opened the most concerted resistance Patton's men had met in many days. The Germans lost 40 tanks in one day, came back for more wounds and lost ten the next...