Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British flyers, under a unified command, had not only cut off the battle field of northwestern France from the rest of Europe. They had also made it a place where the Germans' rolling stock could move only by night, where by day tanks, trucks and railroad trains were so efficiently spotted and bombed that no rapid movement could be attempted, no threatened spot reinforced...
Coningham's command responsibility on the Western Front covers two tactical air forces: the British Second, which he commands himself, and the U.S. Ninth, headed by Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton, whose rough buccaneering spirit Coningham readily understands and approves. Brereton's Ninth is not only larger than the. Second; in number of planes and men, it is the biggest air force in Europe. This fact would make Coningham's position somewhat delicate, if he did not have a talent for friendly collaboration. He gets along famously with Brereton, who speaks his mind bluntly in conferences...
Dark Hair to Grey. Sir Arthur Coningham has top qualifications for his command. R.A.F. crews who have fought under his guidance swear that he is the greatest tactical commander that ever pranged a Jerry; air experts generally agree that he is the best Britain has produced. Beyond all doubt he is the most experienced. For three years he has held a continuous operational command, longer than any other high-ranking British airman...
Completing the Alphabet. General Eisenhower took over three separate U.S. and R.A.F. tactical air forces in North Africa. He soon made them one, and put Coningham in command. Long before, grinning and folding his hairy arms on his chest, Coningham had said: "The Germans know war from A to about Y. They don't know Z." Now he proceeded to teach them something about...
More Purge. To sweep clean the ranks of his disaffected generals Adolf Hitler needed an iron broom. He found one in the persons of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Supreme High Command, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a Prussian and a Junker. As head of a newly created Military Court of Honor, the two Field Marshals last week reported their first batch of Army sweepings: four of their fellow officers executed; four dead by suicide; two "deserted to the Bolsheviki"; twelve slated for "elimination" from the Army; many more about to be tried...