Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...
...would accept and serve but I would not run, in the usual partisan, political sense. But if the people command me to continue in this office and in this war I have as little right to withdraw as the soldier has to leave his post in the line...
...Mahoney, Chemical Warfare Officer, First Service Command, and Capt. Harry Levine, Chemical Warfare Officer, Boston Harbor Defense, were in charge of the first demonstration. With Chemical Warfare as the subject, a complete presentation was given including gas mask drill, gas chamber exercise, identification of gases, chemical land mines, decontamination, smoke, and incendiaries...
Little Beavers. His command, a division of destroyers, was quickly raised to a squadron (two divisions). Most of his men and officers were green as grass. "Ollie...
...Millions of people at home read it avidly, write letters to him, pray for him, telephone their newspapers to ask about his health and safety. Abroad, G.I.s and generals recognize him wherever he goes, seek him out, confide in him. The War Department and the high command in the field, rating him a top morale-builder, scan his column for hints.* Fellow citizens and fellow-newsmen have heaped honors...