Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers had yet to be named in full. The known appointments heart-warmed every Briton: cocky, confident General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery will leave his Eighth Army to serve as chief of "the British group of armies" on the second front; the R.A.F.'s taut, smart Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder will be Eisenhower's top air deputy (as he was in the Mediterranean...
...Monty may resume the chase of an old fox. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, according to reports from the Continent, is organizing a mobile army, intends to switch it, in the manner of Frederick the Great, against the various invasion threats as they arise...
...great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...
...General, pinned down at least 27 German divisions. The General did not specify that only twelve of the 27 divisions actually stood in the Italian line. The remainder were a reserve held in northern Italy and recently tapped to reinforce the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and his ragged, resolute Liberation Army engaged more Germans (at least 14 divisions) than the British and Americans together engaged in Italy...
When Hitler invaded Russia, Bagramian was a colonel. Five months later, tough Bagramian was a lieutenant general. He became tough Marshal Semion Timoshenko's Assistant Chief of Staff, tasted the bitterness of defeat, learned precious lessons...