Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisenhower himself did not receive them. They did their talking to his chief of staff, brilliant Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, and officers of the Russian, British and French armed services. The final discussions went on through the afternoon and evening: there were endless technical details to be set down, mainly to guarantee the orderly transmission of surrender instructions throughout the shattered German military machine. Finally, at 2:41 a.m. on May 7, at a long wooden table, in the bare, map-walled "war room," the surrender was signed...
...Lieut. Colonel J. 0. ("Joe") Ewart recited in German the terms of surrender: unconditional. The wooden-faced Germans signed. At 1825 hours (6:25 p.m.) on May 4, 1945, Field Marshal Montgomery signed the paper, accepting...
...Poland's Lieut. General Tadeusz Kombrowski ("General Bor"), leader of last August's abortive Warsaw uprising...
...Britain's Lieut. Viscount Lascelles, nephew of King George...
...Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...