Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wild confusion. Germans suddenly appeared over the crest of hills and shot up towns. They overran rear-area supply points, pounced upon U.S. artillerymen before they could get to their guns. Germans surrounded a field of artillery-spotting planes, whose pilots were fast asleep. U.S. divisional generals found their command posts the centers of battles, their defenders hastily armed cooks, clerks, medics, runners. Trucks filled with German soldiers dashed through areas where rear-echelon G.I.s went about their routine tasks...
...seemed, the political and military guidance of the world for 1944 had been charted. As the year wore on, the luster of Teheran began to fade. There was a general cry for another meeting of the Big Three-but there was also a demand for an inter-Allied political command, modeled on the military structure of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, or on the inter-Allied command machinery with which Eisenhower had planned and carried out the greatest achievement of the year. The political world lacked an Eisenhower...
Amnesty, Regency? Meanwhile negotiations began between the belligerents. The Hotel Grande Bretagne, which houses the British high command and the Greek Government, buzzed with rumor. An EAM emissary, hefty, handsome Miltiades Porphyrogenis, made his way across the urban battle lines to the headquarters of British Lieut. General Ronald Mackenzie Scobie received from him the British terms for an armistice: ELAS troops in Athens and Piraeus must yield their arms, evacuate the area. Two days later, EAM countered with a three-point demand for an amnesty, an all-party Government, a regency...
...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
...another flagrant case, the command ing officer of a troop carrier squadron was in on a deal that netted $2,000 a trip, amounting in all to $50,000. His planes often landed at out-of-the-way fields under pretense of motor trouble, so that smugglers could unload under cover of darkness. In another case, a U.S. soldier and four Chinese were arrested in Kunming with $7,000 worth of sulfanilamide...