Word: commandant
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...London stirred with rumors that Churchill was about to reorganize his command system. Was the up-&-down hero of Libya and Ethiopia, General Sir Archibald Wavell, to be Churchill's military right bower? No one knew. Churchill had never really warmed to Wavell-at least until recently. But Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was Wavell's favorite; the separation of Sir Henry's command from that of General Alexander in Egypt and Syria had long been General Wavell's idea. London expected to hear more of Wavell, and of his plans for close Anglo-American contact with...
...ancient story about the newly-commissioned officer who marched his men into a brick wall because he had forgotten the command for halt was nearly reenacted in the Yard yesterday...
Graduation ceremonies will begin with an invocation by Chaplain (Lieut. Col.) Ralph C. Deibent of the Chaplain School Faculty. An address will be delivered by Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Trolane, commandant of the M. P. battalion of the First Service Command. Chaplain (Col.) Cleary will then present the diplomas and the program will be concluded with a benediction by the Right Reverend Monsignor Albert F. Hickey, of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge...
...worth to their professional pride, that they had done a superb job of soldiering. It was just that Hitler had asked for too much before snow fell. All of them, and many another Junker, went out in the period of midwinter madness when Hitler himself took over the command...
...Marines were still killing Japs in the Solomons (see col. 1) when a smaller Marine detachment raided tiny Makin Island, 1,250 miles northeast of Tulagi. Under tall, battle-hardened Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson and his second-in-command, Major James Roosevelt, they killed at least 80 Japs, destroyed two seaplanes and a radio station, looked on while Jap bombers from a nearby island pounded what was left of their own men and installations. Then the Marines retired...