Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from which Adolf Hitler's invasion attempt might come. The July moon waxed full. The tides were just right (flood after midnight). By press and radio Germany threatened invasion ever more loudly and instantly. Still it did not come. Some guessers said that, after disagreement in his High Command, Hitler was waiting for the weekend of Aug. 4, anniversary of Britain's 1914 declaration of war, when the moon would be dark. Only troop move he made last week was to occupy, unopposed, the islet of Ushant off the tip of Brittany, westernmost fragment of France, 125 miles...
Recognition of what Britain faced overhead was expressed last week in one more shake-up of her defense command. Brave but inflexible General Sir Edmund Ironside, 60, was eased upstairs with the rank of Field Marshal, to make way for Lieut. General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 57, as Commander in Chief of the Home Forces. General the Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief of the B. E. F., unassigned to a new high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south...
...unity," he cried, "and 2,000,000 soldiers ready to face any one and support Spain's rights!" Harking back to Christopher Columbus' patroness Queen Isabella, El Caudillo continued, "From that initial period this duty and mission has been left us as a people: the command to hold Gibraltar, African expansion, and maintenance of unity, the command of Isabella's will which, after four centuries, is still in force...
...first months of World War I he was military observer with the Russian armies, later served as a military intelligence officer with the A. E. F., was sent to Constantinople in 1922 as an attache and was recalled in 1925 to be converted into an artilleryman. He was in command of Field Artillery School troops at Fort Sill, Okla., when he was sent to London as military attache in 1939, returned to the U. S. last April to join George Marshall's staff...
...charge of transportation, traffic, is accountable for all Army property. All this is right up the professional alley of Dick Moore, who has been a supervising engineer on the U. S.'s great rivers, had a detail to Peru with the United States Naval Mission in 1928-30, commanded combat engineers and headed up the Atlantic Sector of the Canal Zone. A general officer since 1938, he was in command of the 18th Infantry Brigade in the Zone when George Marshall tapped...