Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander filled the post left vacant by burly General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, who will go to Washington as head of the British Joint Staff Mission (succeeding the late great Field Marshal Sir John Dill). Into Alexander's place, as commander of the Fifteenth Army Group in Italy, stepped lanky Mark Clark...
...Soldier Dill, now armed with a Field Marshal's baton, was destined never to reach India. A topflight job developed for which he was Churchill's inevitable choice-head of the British Joint Staff Mission to Washington, set up immediately after Pearl Harbor...
Among the Allies' top planning soldiers John Dill found friends-General Marshall, "Hap" Arnold, the Navy's "Ernie" King-and bound them close to him by his easy wit, his Jim Farley-like ability to remember first names and nicknames, his all-round proficiency as a soldier and a staff officer...
Field Marshal Dill was a fast worker, but he knew no hours. To force him to rest, George Marshall took him to his home in Virginia for weekends, sometimes took him canoeing on the Potomac. When the second Quebec Conference was called, General Dill's physician forbade him to go. He went anyhow...
...whom many Britons call "our best general since Marlborough" died (of anemia) last week in the U.S. Army's Walter Reed Hospital. Promptly Franklin Roosevelt awarded a posthumous Distinguished Service Medal. John Dill's body was borne across the Potomac to Arlington Cemetery, to lie among the U.S.'s military great...