Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
This was the military headquarters of Western Europe. Its head man, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, was the commander in chief of the military forces of the five West European nations who (in the Brussels pact last year) had decided to stand together against aggression. It would in all likelihood serve as the nucleus of the GHQ of the North Atlantic nations' joint forces...
...North Atlantic Treaty had given the democracies a new sense of unity, and implicit assurance that the U.S. meant to go to war if the Red army tried to invade Western Europe; but the treaty, by the very fact that it also committed Western Europe to stand against aggression, had thrown into sharp and shocking relief
...Western Europe's military weakness. The hard fact was that Western Europe's ramparts at the Eastertide were incapable of even slowing any aggressive thrust to the Channel and the Atlantic coast...
Wooden Guns. Exact figures on Europe's military establishment were technically secret. But it was no secret to anyone that the Western European powers between them could put no more than a dozen poorly equipped, poorly organized combat divisions into the field, virtually bare of armor and effective air support...