Word: commandant
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...high command is largely a collection of befuddled old land-going, deck-tramping gentlemen peering in grave concern at a darkening sky, pathetically wondering what...
Miss Boothe drew a bead on the Administration for talking a "tough" war but fighting a "soft" war. She demanded as essentials in toughening up the U.S. war effort: the appointment of a unified military command; a unified economic command; a unified political command...
Made chief of a newly created Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Command, Nancy Harkness Love, 28-year-old wife of the Army Air Transport Command's deputy chief of staff...
...eyes, many German women have found something fearful and attractive. Common soldiers, and even his fellow Prussians, sometimes saw in him a quality which they shunned and derided. They called him der Sterber ("the Dier"). They called themselves "Bock's own dying heroes." But, at his command, they fought well, and by the thousands they died. With the abundance of guns, tanks and planes which Bock gave them, they drove the men of the Red Army from the hills, the valleys and the villages before Stalingrad...
...Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...