Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Expeditionary Force battled two stubborn foes. One of them, the Germans, was reasonably predictable. The other, the weather, defied close analysis and for that reason gave the Allied high command the kind of trouble it had hoped to avoid...
Supplies and reinforcements were moving across the Channel and up the beaches in great volume. Even the Germans admitted that. But the Allied high command made no bones of a sobering fact: unloading had been thrown behind schedule...
...plus one-Wednesday-General Dwight David Eisenhower felt justified in leaving his advanced command post in England long enough for his first close look at how the invasion was going. Boarding a British cruiser, he steamed along the invasion coast for four and a half hours, held conferences with his operational commanders...
...Allies deployed their great strength, the 4,000 ships, 11,000 planes, hundreds of thousands of men, machines, guns. Ike's Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier he is distinctly the command-and-staff rather than the warrior type. Ike Eisenhower never took a platoon or a company into battle. The smallest military organization he has ever commanded in actual combat was the Allied Expeditionary Force that went into French North Africa in November 1942. He has no specific battle experience remotely comparable...
Outwardly, Ike Eisenhower has changed little through all this. He is as natural, kindly, down-to-earth as ever. But he is a strict disciplinarian with the troop formations under his command. He is a bear on uniform neatness, a bug on such items of military smartness as saluting. Once in Eighth Air Force headquarters he took General "Tooey" Spaatz down because West Pointer Spaatz, steeped in the Air Force ways of offhand efficiency, had banned saluting in the corridors as a damned nuisance...