Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky, captor of Sevsk. This blue-eyed, blond giant is one of the Red Army's most brilliant field commanders and leading candidate for a marshal's baton (TIME, Aug. 23). His greatest personal triumph was also the greatest victory thus far in World War II: the capture of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus and 330,000 Nazis at Stalingrad...
...East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said of him: "Let Konev play his own game under his own rules, and no German will ever get the better of him." Said Konev to his officers: "Make up your mind what the enemy expects you to do and then do the opposite." Konev is a member...
...world had gradually come to know. Beside him, part of a sensitive, interlocking mechanism of responsibility, were such top commanders in the theater as British General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, chief planner and strategist; Admiral Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham, boss of the Mediterranean fleet; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, strategist of the air. They made the specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington. But the ultimate responsibility was Eisenhower's. And to accomplish his job Eisenhower must lean...
France's great Marshal and hero of the Battle of the Marne, Joseph Jacques Cesaire Jeffre, welcomed a tumultuous crowd that had assembled on May 13, 1917 to greet him. After having received the Doctor of Laws in Sanders Theatre Jeffre went to the Stadium where an hysterical crowd of 30,000 people had gathered to see the famous general. Following a brilliant review of the Harvard ROTC, the Marshal was heard to whisper a brief but sincere enlogy, "C'est magnifique...
Churchill had barely arrived in Memorial Hall when the formal academic procession, led by Dr. Reginald Fitz '06. University Marshal, began to file into Sanders Theatre...