Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higgins, the Iowan, had his friends impressed until he emerged from the keyboard and the player piano kept merrily on ... Chase Hall's Cast of Characters No. 2: James Devers. Devers halls from the city of brotherly love and has endeared himself to the men in his company one command by such tricks as bringing them to a smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina in C Entry Chase has you puzzled, blame...
Meanwhile, the Eighth Air Force's Gentile, a crack airman who had been embarrassed by his command's extraordinary method of making top man of him, worked might & main to run his score of ships shot down in the air from 23 to the mystic...
Take Care, De Gaulle. Never had Charles de Gaulle ridden so high. His government had liquidated the most vexing symbol of Allied intervention in French affairs. It was accepted by the Allied High Command as the authority for the France that would be liberated. From London came word that General Dwight Eisenhower had invited General de Gaulle to talk problems of civil administration...
...marble Algiers mansion General Henri Giraud, Allied protege, waited vainly for Allied help. He had not "accepted" General Charles de Gaulle's decree removing him as Commander in Chief. Now word came that the Gaullist Government had retired him, at full pay to the "reserve command list." Old Soldier Giraud saw that the fight was lost. To his troops he bade a dignified farewell: "Men pass, but France is eternal...
Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., slightly wounded at Palermo and returned to the U.S. from far-ranging destroyer duty, took command of a patrol vessel after making "a very creditable record" at a subchaser training school in Florida...