Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Aleppo, the French and British commanders met with Turkey's high command in long sessions at which they were reported to have mapped out, in minutest detail, plans for tri-power action in the event of Balkan invasion by Germany or a Caucasian war with Russia. The Balkans buzzed with a report (discounted in London and Paris) that Turkey had promised the Allies free passage through the Dardanelles for war purposes and use of her harbors at Trebizond, Samsun and Sinope for a blockade of the Black...
That the R. A. F. was still well satisfied with its estimate of results in last fortnight's raid on Sylt was shown last week when the man who planned that attack was promoted. Lean, hound-jawed Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, 54, Commander in Chief of the Bomber Command, was made Inspector General of R. A. F. and one of its four Marshals. To make way for him, Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, 62, stepped out voluntarily.* Both men are air veterans of World War I, younger Sir Edgar having the more brilliant record as a fighting pilot. Sir Edward...
...highest decoration for valor, Pour le Mérite. He was wounded in 1915 and again disobeyed orders, by returning directly to the front instead of reporting to a reserve squadron. After the death of Manfred von Richthofen and his successor, a Captain Reinhard, Göring took command of Richthofen's famed Circus. Ordered to surrender his squadron to the advancing Americans on Nov.11, 1918, Göring disobeyed orders for a third time, flew the squadron to Darmstadt. A part of it became detached and had to land at Mannheim, where the fliers were clapped into prison...
Careers as well as martyrs were made that Easter Week, and among those who carved a future for himself was a young, gawky, until then unknown professor of mathematics. Given a battalion command, he led out 50 partly armed men to hold two miles of strategic railway line and canal in Dublin. First he seized Boland's flour mills and bakery as his headquarters. Then, as the British troops came nearer, he called his men together and addressed them: "You have but one life to live, and but one death to die. See that you do both like...
...front page was blanketed with war. Said one story: "Simultaneously with the vote by Congress at 7 o'clock last night ... to declare the U. S. on a wartime basis, the University has been organized as a military post under command of Major Blank, commandant of the Third University Division." Another: "Registration for the University draft will begin today with the calling of all students and faculty between . . . 18 and 25 whose last names range from...