Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Definition of No. 1 air priority (Army) Transport Command): reserved for White House personnel, generals (two-wtar or better),* and personnel on missions of extreme military urgency...
...camp in Alberta, 100 Europe-bound draftees were missing. In Manitoba, at least 350 had vanished. In Saskatchewan, 400 were overdue from one unit, 200 from another. In British Columbia, military authorities admitted that 250 draftees, plus 232 active service men (volunteers) from that province had deserted. Pacific Command officials announced that action would be taken against sweethearts and relatives who harbored missing soldiers-a violation of the Defense of Canada...
Zhukov's field command of the First Ukrainian Army was then taken over by Marshal Ivan Konev. Now it is the left arm of the offensive, striking at Silesia. When Zhukov returned to the field, he took over from tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who moved to command the Second White Russian Army, now the right arm of assault aimed at lopping off East Prussia...
Bradley Resumes. SHAEF censors passed a dispatch hinting that General Omar Bradley had resumed command of his northern armies (relinquished to Field Marshal Montgomery after the German breakthrough), and there was another hint in the fact that Bradley last week pinned a decoration on Lieut. General Courtney Hodges, the First Army's commander. But Bradley was in no shape to resume his November offensive on the Roer. The western front was once more a battle for time-on both sides. Supreme Commander Eisenhower had to rebuild his offensive platforms as quickly as possible. The Germans had to continue delaying...
...swellest dance of 1946. Harry Magnuson has tickets available now for tomorrow's big event celebrating the approach of spring leave and held in honor of the new midshipman class. Everyone and his best date will be on hand, as well as members of the faculty and command, to show the middles what lies on the other side of those case books. See you there...