Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line went dead. Then it rang on again; the bombing was over in that section. But there was to be more, just ahead. The battalion moved its command post 50 yards up the road. Then it halted abruptly as the ripping-silk burst of a German machine pistol sounded up ahead. The enemy was still...
Against the Bulge. The Red High Command struck on a 150-mile front in White Russia, against the Wehrmacht's easternmost bulge. Crisscrossed by swift rivers, small lakes, marshes and dense birch and pine woods, these lush plains accounted for most of the Russian soil still held by the invader. There last week the blue dusk of early northern summer lasted all night...
Turnover in Command. This officer's battalion commander was wounded in his command post about an hour after it was set up-a nasty mortar tear in his backside. The major took over command, but after a couple of hours he was slightly wounded in the back by a shellburst. Then an observer took over until a regular turned up. He was the fourth commander of the battalion within ten hours...
...shelling there, after we had landed, was more rugged. The general set up his command post about 20 yards inland. In an aid station near by in a deep tank trap, there were 14 casualties. The water which seeped through the sand was already red with blood. Artillery fire burst continuously around the aid station but no direct hits were scored...
France's Man? Other towns and villages saw him. Then, after six hours in the homeland, Charles de Gaulle went back to Britain. He left behind, in one corner of France, a new Government. With no apparent objections from the Allied High Command, which had its own administrative setup, Algiers had appointed François Coulet and Colonel Pierre de Chevigné administrators of liberated Normandy. With these Gaullist officials, Charles de Gaulle left instructions for the restoration of the republican regime. More than ever, the General was sure that he was France...