Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
Reclaiming Lost Legions. The Chinese high command tried to weaken the Jap blow by staging a diversion far to the north, around Ichang on the Yangtze River. But Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that something more than a diversion was needed. Even as Hengyang was falling, he had put the finishing touches to a plan for Army reform which would doubtless meet opposition from vested military interests, a plan whose terms proclaimed that all was far from well in China's war-worn Army. Its chief points...
...succeed Brereton in command of the Ninth Air Force, Eisenhower released a top-flight air officer from his own staff. Close-mouthed Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, 45, veteran attack pilot...
...boss its most important new pioneering job in air combat today, the U.S. Army Air Forces last week picked one of its youngest, yeastiest generals. Burly Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay, 37, crack Flying Fortressman, was detached from the European Theater and ordered to China to take command of the A.A.F...
Screamed the Moscow radio: "A libel on the Soviet High Command. . . . The London Polish circles responsible for the Warsaw uprising made no attempt to coordinate the revolt with the Soviet High Command. The responsibility thus lies with the Polish émigré circles in London...