Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Military Governor of Bavaria. For comparing Germany's Nazi problem with U.S. Republicans v. Democrats, and otherwise flouting the orders and policies of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (TIME, Oct. 8), General Patton had been summarily dismissed and relegated to a particularly galling desk job (command of the almost non-existent Fifteenth Army, now writing a history of the German campaign...
Probably not since the days of the first transatlantic flyers had an air hop started with such a swash of publicity. The Army Air Transport Command, inaugurating weekly round-the-world flights, took along a reporter from all three press associations...
...Western Pacific fleet was annihilated under command of a Dutch admiral, while the principal squadron of three American and two Australian heavy cruisers, to protect the landing at Guadalcanal, was surprised and sunk under the British Admiral Crutchley...
...Across the Atlantic, our only check, at Kasserine Pass [North Africa], was with our troops under foreign command. The blunders in Italy were not American blunders. The landing in Normandy was under command of General Montgomery, and General Bradley's famous breakthrough at St. Ló came only after the original plan of campaign had failed. Thereafter, all the victories, offensive and defensive, in France, Belgium and Germany were exclusively American victories...
...tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...