Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They could not identify him. They captured three more alive-one of them a lieutenant general commanding a tank corps-bringing their total of German generals killed or captured to 14 since the offensive started. The Nazis were not even able to save their top command posts from the slashing, battering attacks of the Russians...
Confusion in the German High Command brought a confusing week to 68-year-old Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German Supreme Commander in the west. First he received the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, with a double-talk citation for "preventing the deployment of the enemy bridgehead into a battle of three fronts." Then he lost...
Hengyang Holds Out. About 100,000 Japanese had fought down 100 miles from Changsha past Hengyang, straddling the Hankow-Canton railway on a 50-mile front (see map). In the face of Chinese high command blunders and confusion, the Japanese power reached farther south in this area than ever before. North to meet them from Canton drove another Japanese force. If the two joined, China would be split by a Japanese-garrisoned railway...
...third was called Organisation Civile et Militaire, a non-political organization, and the strongest in the Cherbourg area. Now by decree of the Algiers Government, combat elements of these groups are merged into the Forces Françaises de VIntérieure, a unit of the French Army under command of General Joseph Pierre Koenig (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). According to resistance chiefs in Cherbourg, the movement is genuinely nonpolitical, and it seems likely that the leaders will seek military rather than political posts...
When he took command of the destroyer Mugford in 1939, he trained its gunners to razor fineness, set a new destroyer shooting record, was marked as a great commander by the time he went back into the Bureau of Ordnance a year later. It was 1943 before he got back to sea duty. Then things began to happen...