Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Meanwhile the British Air Command started something it had not tried in all the eight months of World War II: night bombing of military and industrial objectives in Germany. British Wellingtons, Whitleys and Hampdens raided far into Germany. Oil storage tanks in Hamburg and Bremen were destroyed, communications bombed up & down the Rhineland...
Playfair became a Group Captain in 1923 and in 1928 went to Palestine. For his work there he was made Air Commodore in 1930 and sent to India as Chief Staff Officer. He was put in command of the bomber squadron at Andover in 1933, made an Air Vice Marshal the following year the first man ever to reach that rank at 44. Three months ago he said to his men: "Keep fit, keep cheerful, and above all fight against boredom. These quiet times are nearing their...
...will not soon run short. Even if the R. A. F. brings down two planes for every one of its own lost, Germany is turning out some 2,300 planes a month, and Great Britain only 1,200. Fact is that the Allies have no hope of gaining command of the air even if Lord Beaverbrook can boost home production (see p. 36) until 1941 when the U. S. begins to deliver planes and Canada to deliver pilots in quantity. Unless Germany runs out of airplane gasoline there can be no early equality in the air except in the courage...
General Winkelman carefully specified that the war was not over in Zeeland and Queen Wilhelmina named Admiral van der Stad to command all her forces there. The Dutch Navy-was still in the war, being mostly stationed in The Netherlands In dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew...
...promise to change methods and men, the Premier, emulating Georges Clemenceau, the "Old Tiger" who, almost singlehanded, organized victory in the last war, took over supreme civil and military power. To Maxime Weygand, the great Foch's Chief of Staff and "Savior of Warsaw" (1920), he gave supreme command of the Army (see p. 23). Edouard Daladier, who as Minister of Defense since 1936 had worked with supplanted Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin, became Foreign Minister...