Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north and east were terrain and towns he knew as one of World War I's battalion commanders: the Somme, the Argonne, Sedan, Amiens, the Meuse. Those Allied objectives were reminders-if the German command needed any more -of how completely Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley had reversed their classic Schlieffen plan of enveloping France.*Now the Eisenhower-Montgomery wheeling movement, anchored at the mouth of the Seine, was developing arcs that expanded toward Belgium and Germany...
While the monsoon rains beat a devil's tattoo on the elephant-iron roofs of the Southeast Asia Command. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten returned last week to his headquarters in Ceylon from a visit to London. In Britain he had conferred on measures to be taken when the monsoon lifts in the fall. By that time war materials of every sort can flow from the battles in the West to battles still to be fought in the East. Meantime, the Southeast Asia Command had time for recapitulation and appraisal...
...year-old Army veteran, V.M.I.-man and West Pointer, possessor of the D.S.M., D.S.C., Silver Star and Purple Heart from World War I and one of the service's least reliable tempers, Eisenhower gave command of an army. Some days after the Germans had announced the fact to the world, General Patton was officially unveiled as leader of the victorious Third Army in its dash to the Seine. After that, no one could complain...
Some interesting points about Eisenhower's restoration of Patton: in Sicily Patton was in command over Bradley; in Normandy the position is reversed. A dispatch from Normandy last week reported that the breakthrough there-which now reglorifies Patton-was "conceived, planned and executed" by General Bradley...
Able, bespectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley last week took over the biggest field command ever held by a U.S. general. Allied Headquarters announced formation of the Twelfth Army Group in northwestern France with Omar Bradley as its boss. Components of the Twelfth Group: the First Army, which Bradley formerly commanded, and the Third, commanded by Lieut. General George S. Patton...