Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Sherman Miles and Admiral Felix X. Gygax will award commissions to the graduating officers, while the invocation ceremonies are performed by Colonel Abbot Peterson, Chaplain of the First Service Command, and the benediction by Naval Chaplain, Lieutenant Ralph E. Tupper...
...instance I worked on a British field near here on the runway making repairs, and had as my commander on that job a group captain in the R.A.F. His family was 'in trade' in England, and his brother owns a pub in London. For my money he is the finest gentleman I've met over here in any army. There was not any rank between us; it was man-to-man on that job. But the men under him, the little civil servants in his command, were as near to perfect examples...
...Superfortress teams had now hit most of Japan's large cities, and were preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from...
Last year the Communists claimed to dominate 80,000,000 people, to command 470,000 regular troops and over 2,000,000 guerrillas. Now they claim control of 95,500,000 people, 910,000 regulars and 2,200,000 guerrillas. (They also claim to have fought over 92,000 battles against the Japanese in seven years ; this would be about 36 battles...
Admiring Author Pinchon believes that but for Sickles, Chancellorsville would have been not a defeat, but a rout. He quotes Stines's History of the Army of the Potomac: "If Sickles had not brought up his command in time to strike Jackson's right and rear, there is no telling where [the] disaster might have ended. . . . His subsequent night attack against Jackson was one of the most brilliant actions in military history." But General Sickles' major achievement was his stand against Longstreet at Gettysburg. It also cost Sickles his right leg from the thigh down. His military...