Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military would have charge of the actual training, but an overall commission of two civilians and one military man would be in command. Local boards, like draft boards, would register the neighbors' sons. Other civilian boards would keep constant watch on the welfare of the trainees. Army men might find civilian participation a little thick...
According to witnesses at the Lichfield prison trials, Brown, then chief of the Army's Ground Forces Reinforcement Command, had visited the notorious Lichfield guardhouse, said to one guard, "You're not tough enough on these men. You're running a hotel, Sergeant...
...Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct the battle for Manchuria...
...Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
...World War II day in 1933, when a mass flight of obsolescent planes of all sizes-the nation's entire air strength at the time-was also considered quite a thing. The 135 Superfortresses were virtually the entire effective heavy bomber strength of the Strategic Air Command...