Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then in an excess of zeal, the Army's Second Service Command ruled that enlisted men could not even eat in New York restaurant-bars after midnight. Hotelmen and bar and night club operators began shutting up at 12 again, shuddering at the idea of trying to separate service men from liquor or food an hour before civilians went home...
Nineteenth class to start instruction in the unit since its founding in June, 1941, the new contingent complements almost 450 men who are already halfway through their training. The school, now under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, USN (retired), is distinct from the Midshipmen-Officers' Unit, which gives a year's training in similar fields...
...followed from a regimental command post in a cellar the clearing of a row of houses. Reports were pouring in. Somebody had reached the balcony at Number 6. ... Badanov's platoon had just got level with the tall grey house. . . . Someone else's assault detachment had broken into a cellar. ... Then: 'We have reached the second floor and are fighting in the corridors.' ... By morning the houses had been captured...
...night fire-bombing of Japan's cities. The top planning had been done in Washington under Brigadier General Lauris O. ("Swede") Norstad, chief of staff of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force. Then the details were left to Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay, who had the field command and with it, the tactical responsibility, as head of the 21st Bomber Command in the Marianas...
...Batangas Bay in southwestern Luzon, General Patrick's old 158th Regimental Combat Team, now under the command of Brigadier General Hanford MacNider, smashed a Japanese attempt to bring troops in from one of the other islands. But in northern Luzon the 33rd Division, after taking a month to gain 13 miles through difficult mountain terrain, was still seven miles from Baguio. And in Mindanao, Jap artillery and electrically-controlled land mines slowed the advance beyond Zamboanga. The road ahead was steep...