Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brains, imagination and diplomacy when the Chief of Staff sent him first to Britain, then to Africa in 1942. In addition to his natural ability to get along with people, Eisenhower acquired the knack of hitting it off with other nationals, notably the British. In Africa his command structure was a complex but smooth-working mesh of U.S. and British officers, and he carried the same formula back to England when he was chosen to head the invasion. Of the six men on his Supreme Command, four were British...
...heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
...Army's explanation: the situation after the breakthrough was so "fluid" that detailed stories would jeopardize plans for meeting the German offense. Correspondents said it less politely: the First Army had been caught with its pants down and the high command was trying to cover up. In a stormy session at Supreme Headquarters they told General Eisenhower's press chief, Brigadier General Frank ("Honk") Allen what they thought of SHAEF's news blackout...
...destroyer, rolling back to Pearl Harbor from a routine patrol, picked up a startling report from a minesweeper: a mysterious object, possibly a submarine, had been detected in the darkness to the west. From the skipper's cabin, Lieut. William W. Outerbridge, nervously proud of his first full command, hurried out to direct a search. Finding nothing, he gave the order to secure from general quarters, went back to sleep...
Formed in January 1941 at Selfridge Field, Mich., the Forty-niners went through the usual training in P-40s, were shipped out less than two months after war began. Under command of young, keen-eyed Major Paul B. Wurtsmith (now a brigadier general in charge of the Fifth Fighter Command), about a year later they landed in Melbourne...