Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves of U.S. concentrations "for a grand-scale assault" aimed at the Cologne plain east of Geilenkirchen (twelve miles north of Aachen). To dispose his forces to meet it, the enemy shifted his dwindling reserves under the protection of swarms of mobile antiaircraft guns. Still Allied airmen in complete command of the air took a heavy toll of men & material...
...Germans were still convinced he was a topnotcher: his arrogance, his color gave him an appeal that other generals of possibly more ability (e.g., Rundstedt, Kesselring) completely lacked. At 52, resoundingly defeated in Africa, Germany's youngest field marshal, he took command of an army group in France...
Ceremonious Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory, onetime boss of Britain's glamorous Fighter Command, plugged on nevertheless at his job in Eisenhower's headquarters. This week the situation was cleared up. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower and a veteran associate and boss of U.S. airmen, took over the job of running the Expeditionary Air Force. To a new job in a minor league-the Southeast Asia theater-went Sir Trafford, to become Allied air commander there...
...blockhouses. There have been many casualties: one whole brigade was cut off by the Germans while acting and never heard from again. One troupe worked for seven months without a change of clothes. One group was playing in a shed to 65 Tommy gunners; in a corner was the command post, at which an officer gave telephone orders from time to time. At one point an actor broke off his lines and asked: "Do we disturb you?" The officer answered: "Not at all. Do we disturb...
...less than half the present commercial rate by Pan Am Clippers to Foynes, Eire or Lisbon. T.W.A., now flying the Atlantic for the Air Transport Command, promised also to cut the present flying time from New York to London via Foynes to 22 hours 40 minutes (New York to London without interruption). Said Mr. Frye blandly: "We are not cutting rates for the sake of cutting, but because we can operate at a profit at these rates...