Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acquired a further honorable record on the battlefield. As an officer in the Pennsylvania National Guard, he had fought with Pershing on the Mexican border. In World War I he had served in France, where he was wounded, gassed and decorated. In 1939, a major general, he commanded and trained Pennsylvania's famed 28th Division. But when war came again, Old Soldier Martin was retired. Heartbroken, he saw his 28th march off under another man's command...
...luxurious liner comes equipped with a locked cabinet in the back seat for spirits, "an overgrown burp" of a horn that does not command what the owner deems proper respect, and eight tires he hopes will see him through the winter...
After tours of duty in the Pentagon and the Pacific, he took over command of the Sixth Army with headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio. There last week death came to Joseph Warren Stilwell, 63, after an operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
...TIME Correspondent John Scott in Berlin last fortnight, three Russian Orthodox churchmen reported their recent command visit to the Soviet Union and the condition of their church there...
...Married. Major General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 42, Army Air Forces hero who (in 1929) served as relief pilot of the plane Question Mark on its spectacular endurance flight (nearly seven days aloft), was the wartime commanding general of the Ninth Fighter Command in England, flew 86 combat missions, now heads the Tactical Air Command; and Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam, . 29, granddaughter of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer and daughter of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bar Harbor...