Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brain of the C.P. is a vast octagonal room where the Chiefs of Staff and their top officers meet. Around a great table sit General Marshall, Field Marshal Sir John Dill. Admirals Ernest King and Sir Charles Little, Lieut. General "Hap" Arnold of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris of the R.A.F., Chinese, Dutch and Australian representatives. There also sits pallid Harry Hopkins, all-powerful Chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board, who has an office in the building...
...positive, known result of the Churchill-Roosevelt conference was the creation of the Allied Supreme Command. And for weeks the top military and naval men of Britain and the U.S. had had their heads together. Field Marshal Sir John Dill remained behind to continue the discussions after the Prime Minister went home. He and Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (who returned to England) had had long discussions with the U.S. Army's General Marshall, the Navy's Admirals King & Stark, the Army Air Forces' Major General Arnold. Henceforth the fighting plans of the two nations would be made...
...Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, formerly Chief of the Imperial General Staff, now Governor of Bombay-the same...
...White House, visitors streamed in & out through the day and late into the night. With Churchill had come his Minister of Supply, Lord Beaverbrook, and 82 other civilian and military aides. There was Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound. Britain's First Sea Lord; General Sir John Dill, retiring Chief of Staff of the British Army; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal...
Dublin-born Archie Nye is a virtual stranger to the British public, but General Dill refers to him as an officer "whom I have long marked out for rapid advance," and Winston Churchill is said to be equally interested...