Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixth's left flank. The men who had rescued them were 286 Filipinos and 121 picked men of the U.S. 6th Ranger Battalion. The squat, handsome man wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia and a shoulder holster over his sweat-stained shirt was Henry Andrew Mucci, in command...
Mucci's men were a tough breed. Formerly they had been a pack field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...
...blunt-spoken man who knows the Far East well, Tommy Hart gave up his fleet command in February 1942. Since then he has been living at his Sharon (Conn.) dairy farm, commuting to Washington for sessions of the Navy General Board. Last year he gathered evidence on the Pearl Harbor disaster for the Secretary of the Navy. A classmate of Admiral Leahy's at Annapolis (1897), a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's, Tommy Hart would be the first top-rank officer of World War II to go to Congress...
...under draft age is its Enlisted Reserve Corps. The program merely grants deforms to college men until the end of the term during which they register for the draft. At that term's close, corpsmen receive orders to report to a replacement center in their home service command. Application forms and physical examinations are to be had at 808 Commonwealth Avenue. Enlistment here carries no implication of special training...
...venture to predict nothing. M.C. Smith, who is getting older by the day, is nominated by the Millsaps Mariner, Bill Stark, as an eager beaver--how come? Jim "Cadence" Polhemus finally brought marine cadence to Briggs Cage. Yes, "the Hook" really got his chance when "the Orator" instigated rotating command. This innovation has uncovered many varieties of cadence existing here in the middles hall...