Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Army was Bradley's pride & joy after D-day (it is still his favorite). But Bradley had a bigger job cut out for him: combined command of the First and of General Patton's armor-heavy Third, whenever the Third could be broken loose out of Normandy. Hodges was on hand to run the First...
...shift from Bradley's to Hodges' command was made in mid-battle, without the grating of a gear. The battle plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap...
After the meeting the General sets out in his jeep to visit his corps commanders, to detail plans, to check on battle performance. The commanders know that the General is no martinet, but they also know that he can be ruthless in putting the ax to any command if it fails to meet his combat standards (Hodges has sacked several generals and colonels, some of them his close friends...
...Precise Way. At lunchtime Hodges usually pulls his jeep to a roadside and digs into a can of K rations-he does not like to cause a flurry of deference to his stars by taking lunch at some command post. But, back at his headquarters, the General insists that the staff officers who dine with him appear in spic-&-span uniforms. When he enters the mess his officers hop to attention and hold it until he nods them at ease. He dresses immaculately, but detests flashy uniforms, refers to service and decorations ribbons as "brag rags." But he wears...
...First Army's command team this week was the responsibility for answering the question: will the war in the West end this year or drag drearily into next spring? To romanticists the appropriate man to deliver the successful answer might seem the legendary general of the Jeb Stuart type. But there were no romantic trappings about make-certain Courtney Hodges. His only tradition was precise, professional proficiency. It suited soldiers...