Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merged the Polish Army in Russia and the underground in Poland under the new committee's single command...
...climbed to a regimental command post at the very top of the Chinese positions. From the loopholes you could see out over the field of battle. The nearest hill recaptured was a wooded one and Chinese troops were already sheltered there. But three Jap hills beyond were the highest of the cluster and on these the Japs had concentrated their guns and men. Two white farmhouses in the slopes of the hills held invisible Japs, and Chinese guns were trying to reach them unsuccessfully. Mortars of the Chinese belched from behind us, but nothing happened...
...Blue Lagoon. With air bases for the Army's heavy bombers already being readied for use, the U.S. command's greatest need was a fleet anchorage in the western Pacific, fronting on the Philippine Sea. Saipan and Guam could serve only as staging points for a fleet; what was wanted was a landlocked basin such as Pearl Harbor, a blue lagoon like Kwajalein, Eniwetok or Majuro. A fine harbor could be had at Palau, a poorer one at Yap; a lagoon could be secured at one of several atolls in the western Carolines-far beyond the bypassed enemy...
...extremely small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous and at the same time foolish, criminally stupid officers hatched a plot to remove me and . . . the staff of the German High Command. The bomb that was placed by Colonel Graf von Stauffenberg exploded two meters [about two yards] away from me on my right side. It wounded very seriously a number of my dear collaborators. One of them has died...
...created to bring together all the Marine divisions for the final assaults against Japan. Last week Admiral Nimitz announced that tough, kindly Lieut. General Holland M. Smith had been given command of Fleet Marine Forces of the Pacific...