Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgia neighbors were primed to give him the reception he deserved. His First Army had made history. His men had been first in France, first across the Rhine, among the first through the Siegfried Line. Now Washington made his command the first to be redeployed to the Pacific...
...drab-colored command car, grinning and waving his thin brown hand, General Hodges rode through Atlanta's cheering streets. With him in the parade of cars rode eight other generals, 19 officers of lesser rank, 22 enlisted men, most of them Georgia boys, all grinning and gaping at the B-29s sweeping overhead (B-29s are a novelty to veterans of Europe...
...receipt of instructions," said General Rooks, ". . . the Acting German Government and the German High Command shall be taken into custody . . . as prisoners of war. Thereby the Acting German Government is dissolved...
Chungking had good news aplenty this week. On the coast, Japanese forces, apparently redeploying against a possible U.S. landing, abandoned the great port of Foochow. The high command announced a new Chinese offensive in the south, with the capture of Hochih, a heavily fortified rail town guarding Japan's supply route to Indo-China. And Chungking was still savoring its victory in the campaign for Chihkiang (TIME...
...General Wang, the man at the scene, was in command. There was no mid-battle, long-distance masterminding from Chungking, as happened during the East China campaign last year...