Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department strategists were frankly worried. Any delay which gave the Japs a breather would alter the Pacific schedule and might cost U.S. lives. But there was not much the High Command could do about it while the Nazis continued to resist...
...clear that the Jap command had resorted to a defense as macabre to Western minds as it was typically Japanese. There was no question that the harakiri tactic of Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) airmen had been adopted as a chief effort. There were strong indications that it had become the major hope of a defense of desperation...
Tactical Superforts. Relatively small though the U.S. losses might be, the Pacific command was determined to make them smaller. Last week U.S. airmen threw everything in their own book at the Japs-and one thing that was never in the book for the big B-29 bombers. For the first time, but probably not the last, the long-range Superfortresses did a chore of close-up tactical bombing in direct support of the Okinawa operations. Four times in six days, large forces of them ranged far & wide over Japan's home island of Kyushu, hammering airfields from medium altitude...
...Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey Jr., bellicose Third Fleet commander, let out one of his periodic anti-Jap bellows, this time for punishment of "all Japs guilty of war crimes without respect for rank or position." Paying his particular respects to Field Marshal Juichi Terauchi, "the beast ... in command during the death march of our prisoners on Bataan," he proposed: "For every one of our men who was murdered, officially or otherwise, a Jap officer two ranks higher should suffer the death penalty...
Developed by Air Technical Service Command engineers and the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co., the formation stick is now in use in all theaters. Pilots consider it one of the most helpful inventions...