Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon, Knox went to President Roosevelt to decide the appointment of a new Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet. A year before, Knox had submitted two names: Husband Edward Kimmel and Chester William Nimitz, in that order. Franklin Roosevelt had picked the first name. This time, said Knox, he would be satisfied with the second name from the same list. The President agreed. Nimitz himself demurred; he suggested that the command should go to Vice Admiral William S. Pye, who had taken over temporarily from Kimmel after the disaster. But he accepted his orders, and started west in civilian clothes, under...
...Battle of Midway, Halsey was ailing and unavailable. Nimitz sent Raymond Ames Spruance out first with two carriers, then Frank Jack Fletcher with the Yorktown. As senior, Fletcher took overall command, but when the Yorktown retired from the fight, crippled, Spruance carried on. The victory ended the Jap threat to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the U.S. itself. It was the turning point of the Pacific war. In announcing the triumph, Nimitz punned: "We are about midway to our objective...
...German command did not need a Yalta communiqué to know that the Allies had chosen the place-and probably the time-for the fourth and final ground front: the north German plain. There, perhaps in conjunction with landings from the North Sea, the eastern and western Allies had the same objective: to grind the Wehrmacht between them...
...leadership, in the last ditch of desperation, would order gas or bacteriological warfare. But if the threat was another bluff, it was quickly called. SHAEF let the thing be said that had long been evident but unlabeled: that terror bombing of German cities was deliberate military policy. The German command could easily read between the lines an Allied warning...
...that such comparisons have become meaningless-steamed undetected, through filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...