Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over. SHAEF's earlier indications that the Flensburg regime was not recognized as a pro tem government and that it was under control had been contradicted by the action and words of SHAEF's General Rooks. Military necessity may have required General Eisenhower and his field commanders to use the interim services of Admiral Doenitz and his motley crew in bringing the huge German machine under control. If so, circumstances had given "the German High Command" at Flensburg a fateful opportunity, and Doenitz & Co. had made the most of it. The world had not heard the last...
When Adolf Hitler came to power, he used the professional High Command, and its members used him. They had the same aim-war-and the story of their mutual enmity was largely a myth...
...idea, popular just now, that merely by imprisoning the ranking German commanders the Allies could kill the German High Command. Fundamentally, it would live as long as the German military spirit lived-and that spirit was far from dead last week...
Even the smallest bridge or road junction was guarded simultaneously by Yugoslavs and Gurkhas, Yanks or New Zealanders. The Yugoslav command had a lot to learn about Yanks. Yugoslav girl troops often stood guard at one end of a bridge, Yanks at the other. The girls did not stay on their own side very long-gum, candy, and wristwatches were fascinating...
Growing Pearl. Pearl Harbor, which could not even be identified as the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet when those first new carriers returned from their strike at Marcus, is now freely advertised as the rear headquarters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' command. Pearl Harbor is still growing; the land area surrounding it is still being covered with new hundreds of acres of warehouses, shops and all the other impedimenta of a rear base...