Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of radar stations were in operation. But only a handful of men knew how to run them. One man who did, Pfc. Joseph L. Lockard, was sitting at one on that fateful Sunday morning and spotted a large formation of planes. He notified Air Forces Lieut. Kermit Tyler, sole officer at the Information Center, who was there for training. Tyler thought Pfc. Lockard's planes were probably a flight of B-17s, due to arrive from the West Coast. "Forget it," said Lieut. Tyler, in effect. Said the Army Board: "By his assumption of authority he [Tyler] took...
...Lieut. General George Grunert, 64, who enlisted in 1898, served in the Far East, won the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I; onetime commanding general of the Philippine Department, was most recently commanding general of the Eastern Defense Command...
...precisely 9:08 MacArthur stepped forward, removed a handful of fountain pens from his pocket. He started his signature, then handed the first pen to the gaunt soldier standing by his left shoulder. General Jonathan Wainwright saluted stiffly, accepted the pen, and stepped back. The next one went to Lieut. General Arthur E. Percival of Singapore...
...Japs clustered about and listened to the interpreter giving them their last instructions. [There was a moment of confusion while Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland straightened out signatures on the Japanese copy of the surrender document. Colonel L. Moore Cosgrave, who signed for Canada, had written on the wrong line. So had the French, Dutch and New Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu...
Whisked to Baguio, Yamashita formally surrendered to Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, ordered the 40,000 Japanese troops in the Philippines to give...