Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After D-day there would still be strategic bombing-Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's day bombers would perhaps be as busy as they are now and Air Chief Marshal "Bert" Harris would still send his heavies deep into Germany by night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...
...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
What Next? The Germans would have liked to know what General Alexander was going to do next. Whatever it was, Field Marshal Kesselring's armies seemed in poor position to stop him. Kesselring had 18 or 19 front-line divisions in Italy, many of which were badly mauled last week. He had practically no reserves which were not already committed. His troops still fought and fought bitterly: they were a long way from demorilization...
Commencement plans for seniors in Harvard College were announced today by Dean Hanford, while general arrangements for the Commencement ceremonies on Thursday, June 29, were made public by Dr. Reginald Fitz, the University Marshal...
...growing power of Partisan Leader Josip (Marshal Tito) Broz, Russian pressure for Tito's full recognition, and British insistence forced Peter to ditch his anti-Tito ministers. At 20, two months after his marriage to Princess Alexandra...