Word: greer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweeping High Command shakeup, hailed by a jubilant press as a sure sign that "fighting days are here again," General Sir John Greer Dill, who will reach the retirement age of 60 Christmas Day, announced his own replacement as Chief of Staff by General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 58, Commander in Chief of Home Forces and mechanized-warfare specialist. But popular Wizard Brooke will also reach retirement age in 20 months. Named Vice Chief was the ranker, Major General Archibald Nye, who is only...
Berlin, Nov. 1-(AP)-A German Government statement today charged the U.S. with aggression and said the U.S. destroyers Greer and Kearny had attacked German naval vessels...
...Navy, famous for equipment and famous for morale, was making a very good start in winning the Battle of the Atlantic. On the docket for all to see were the sinking of the Reuben James (see col. 2), the nicking of the Kearny, the near missing of the Greer. If the crack U.S. Navy had exacted any price from the enemy, it was not public knowledge...
Those editors who were too lightheartedly interventionist have apparently begun to think twice. Six weeks ago interventionist sentiment in the press (measured by James S. Twohey Associates) reached an all-time high of 84%. Then war began to look imminent. The Greer was shot at, the Kearny was hit by a torpedo, U.S. destroyers were reported hunting U-boats and dropping depth charges. In five weeks' interventionist sentiment dropped...
When the Kearny was struck, to her side steamed a slim, salt-crusted four-piper with signal flags whipping from her bridge. It was the U.S.S. Greer...