Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indies and American colony trade, he served until 1764, when he became a second officer, the next year first officer of one of the Younger ships. Released from his indenture in 1766, he became, at slightly under 21 years of age, captain of the John. He retired from this command and came ashore in Virginia, where he caught up with the name of Jones, and remained until the American Revolution called him to become one of the founders of the American Navy...
...dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip a luscious chance to swoop on the enemy. "Since there is now no time for the Navy to organize its own air service," wrote the testy Admiral, "it is imperative that the coastal command [of R. A. F.], with a suitably equipped striking force of bombers and fighters attached, should be placed under operational control of the Navy at once and its headquarters housed in the Admiralty. . . . The Admiralty must have control of all aircraft which work with and against ships...
...England last week arrived the first Australian contingent, a full squadron of trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
...libel suit brought against Collier's by Joseph R. Levy, divorced husband of Paulette Goddard's mother, be cause, he alleged, a story was published saying he was Paulette's stepfather, not father. Cinemactress Goddard failed to show up and the court decreed a command performance on Jan. 16 in which she should tell why she should not be held in contempt...
Prelude. The first (precise) half of Verdun is a Prelude and opens with a leisurely description of the Western Front and its strategy in 1915, done in a dispassionate tone between solemnity and irony. "The two High Commands had taken the field with a whole dossier of formulas guaranteed to be infallible by such experts as Napoleon or Moltke and perfected by generations of professors in the military art. All this printed accumulation of tactical genius, which ought to have ensured victory in three weeks, turned out to be no less productive of almost immediate defeat - though not car ried...