Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Place Surprise. This was not the only significant decision taken by the Allied Command. They faced the fact that it was virtually impossible to achieve surprise...
Colonel Purdon, who took command of the Army units here from temporary Commandant Major Anthony J. Nogelo at the beginning of May, came here with a long record of Staff work with the Army. Graduated from the Military Academy, Class of 1909, he served in France with the 3rd Division, winning his gold leaves June...
...years as professor of Military Science and Tactics at Syracuse, and two years on the faculty of the Fort Benning Infantry School. In January of 1941 he returned to active duty from three years voluntary retirement to serve with the inspector General's Department of the First Service Command. It was from this post that he reported to his present command...
...blue-bound, looseleaf "Memo for Company Instruction," the German High Command announced that every German family must average four children. Reason: "Every stout boy born in 1943 can become a brave soldier...
Pondering the problem, Major General Lester T. Miller, supply chief of the Army's Air Service Command, said last week: "To return much of it would be prohibitive, due to transportation and handling costs and because many items quickly become obsolete." Unless stuff can be disposed of on the spot. General Miller advised, "it will be more economical and cost taxpayers less to dump it in the ocean...