Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "I have seen the contention made that you can have effective unity of command in the field in wartime without having unity of control in peacetime. I believe that is wrong and I believe that, even worse, it is hypocrisy...
General Doolittle was full-out for the merger of the services recently proposed by a special committe appointed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan would 1) unify military command, 2) set up an independent air force. Reservist Doolittle, who does not have to worry about a postwar military career, went out of his way to blast the committee's one dissenting member, an "elderly retired Admiral" (67-year-old J. O. Richardson). Said Doolittle: "[His] is the type of retarded military thinking that held ... aviation back...
Shepherd's Sixth. The other arm of Rockey's Corps, the 6th Division, was dumped into Tsingtao* under command of Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., stocky, energetic veteran whose great hobby is swimming under water to spear fish. His 6th had undergone its worst ordeal on Okinawa, at Sugar Loaf Hill-one of the decisive local battles...
...there would be daily scheduled flights from India and Burma to Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command will be down to around 9,000, from a peak of 35,000 (including 4,712 pilots...
...hoping that we could foster peace by redeploying the Government armies where they could command peace, we neglected to consider the consequences of failure. We pursued a policy of optimism based on Chungking's hope that the Stalin-Soong agreement would quiet China's Communists and that there would be no fighting. Now we are confronted with the ugly fact of civil...