Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order of Battle. For this job Omar Bradley commanded the mightiest of the Allied Army Groups. Montgomery had two armies, the British First, the Canadian First. "Jake" Devers had two, the U.S. Seventh, the French Second. Bradley had three: William Simpson's Ninth, a newcomer on the front; Courtney Hodges' First (the infantry heavyweight) and George Patton's Third (the armored pile driver...
Right Hook. Jake Devers had fashioned his Strasbourg grip on the Rhine-and his opportunity to expand it-out of surprise and dash. Over the weeks of stalemate he had slipped the fresh, enthusiastic army of Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny into position before Belfort: two French divisions, a colonial Spahi division, a battalion-plus of F.F.I...
...this time, the enemy was maneuvered out of position. He sent some 3,000 reinforcements south to counterattack near Colmar, thus let down his right guard. Jake Devers let go a stiff punch. On back trails through the Saverne Gap he sent Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc's* French armored division driving toward Strasbourg. The Germans, apparently expecting that any advance would be along the gap's one main road, again found themselves bypassed, surrounded in pockets. Leclerc's tanks brushed through a shell of resistance, reached Alsace's capital (where children cheered them in German...
...Institute of Technology for training in aeronautics. When he was discharged, he was expert enough to get the job of general manager of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. at $4,200 a year. In 1929, the flurry of plane company mergers made Grumman's job a poor one. Jake Swirbul, who was works manager at Loening, and Bill Schwendler, just getting started as a designer, were in the same boat. The trio decided to start their own company to repair planes. Grumman plunked $16,875 into the new company, Swirbul $8,125, and Schwendler...
When Grumman built these floats, in an unconventional design, the Navy said they were too light, would collapse. Roy & Jake staked their lives on their design. They climbed into a Navy plane behind a Navy pilot, were catapulted successfully from a battleship. The Navy ordered six more floats, and then gave Grumman a contract for an experimental fighting plane. This turned out to be the first Navy fighter in the world with retractable landing wheels, and it dazzled the Navy with a speed of 206 m.p.h. Grumman landed its first big Navy order for 27 fighters, worth...