Word: deployments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation would be known as "Crossroads." In the task force would be a fleet of 50 ships, with 20,000 sailors, Army airmen, scientists, Congressmen and 150 newsmen. In early May, under Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, the force would deploy expectantly around Bikini...
From headquarters in Kunming, you beat your way 400 miles to shabby, weather-worn Kweiyang and thence to field headquarters, and you've come only half the way. There American Brigadier General Frederick Boye and Chinese General Tang En Po jointly deploy and dispose of Chinese and American personnel in combat. Their remote control runs another 400 miles to the quiet, fluid string of foxholes that is the front, inhabited by hungry Chinese infantrymen and grimy, filthy Americans...
...glare of summer Sun cut down by Venetian blinds, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur conferred with General Joseph W. Stilwell. The commander of all Army forces in the Pacific and the commander of all the Army's ground forces had a knotty problem to resolve: how to deploy more than 3,500,000 men for the final onslaught against Japan...
...Army will be reduced. To provide "all the strength we believe we can deploy effectively against Japan," and to maintain training and supply in the U.S., the War Department plans to get down to a strength of 7,000,000 by year's end. Some 400,000 of these will be employed as occupation troops, serving in the newly activated Fifteenth Army of Lieut. Gen eral Leonard T. Gerow...
...vast Executive Chamber, where clemency hearings and full-dress conferences are held and visitors come to gape, hang the portraits of many past Governors of New York. The gold frames cover the mahogany walls, deploy along the full-length glass windows and over the hammered brass fixtures of the great fireplace...