Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hell-for-leather Lieut. General George S. Patton fumed, and he had reason. A tank expert who specialized in roving maneuver, he was now forced to measure his progress in yards. His Third Army was barred from the Saar by defenses west of the Siegfried Line. Core of his army's troubles was a 43 -year-old French fort manned by former cadets of the German officers' school at Metz...
South of Patton's army, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army was learning the same kind of lesson, taught by desperate Germans from the North Sea to the Alps. Through forests, hills and French hamlets in the Belfort area the Seventh gained a few hundred yards a day in hard, wary fighting against Germans who infiltrated and ambushed, kept the attackers on constant, red-eyed alert...
Previously, the London Poles had disclosed that Bor was Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski, a regular-army cavalry officer. Blue-eyed, dapper, cleanshaven, lean and tall, he was born 46 years ago near Lvov, fought the Germans in the last war, was slightly wounded in Warsaw, later became an officer and attended the Ecole de Guerre in Paris. He was commanding a cavalry brigade in 1939 when Poland fell. In the summer of 1943 General Wladislaw Sikorsky appointed him chief of the Polish underground, less than 24 hours before Sikorsky was killed in an airplane crash. The Germans were said...
...into blazing Warsaw after a 20-day siege, the Warsaw radio went off the air playing Polish funeral hymns. Last week Warsaw died again (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). After a 63-day siege, a ferocious fight from building to building and block to block, the Partisan forces of General Bor (Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski) surrendered to the Germans. This time there was no aerial music...
...Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...