Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the recent turnover, in officer personnel subsided, Colonel Francis L. Purdon, Infantry, USA, has moved into the command position for Army units attached to the University, while Major Anthony J. Nogelo, Gavalry, resumes former duties as Executive Officer...
...beaut of the week was the new command given by Jim Dever at P. T. as he attempted to revise the Landing Force Manual. To get his men at the proper interval, "One Cadence" Jim gave the command, "At extended intervals--Extend." Some day now we'll hear, "Column Right--Coll...
...blow came three days after Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten moved from inland New Delhi to Kandy on the island of Ceylon off India's southern tip. Under command of salty British Admiral Sir James F. Somerville, the task-force carriers turned into a dawn wind, launched their planes near Sumatra...
...battle theaters-China-Burma-India-got its first clear hearing on the U.S. air last week. The Blue Network program, Yanks in the Orient, was the first of 13 programs being recorded on the spot by U.S. Army Public Relations and flown to the U.S. by Air Transport Command.* It told the story of the Rescue Squadron of A.T.C.'s India-China wing...
Monty Delivers. Until Tripoli's capture, Charlton got out his News on captured Italian mobile presses (once he used Italian prisoners' maps for paper). He dressed up his sheet with German propaganda pictures. Monty himself at times delivered bundles of the News in his command...