Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Imperial Staff was announced, replacing General Sir Edmund Ironside, who was put in charge of home defense (see p. 27). In a switch strategically parallel to the Weygand-for-Gamelin move, Mr. Churchill called on General Sir John Greer Dill, who was brought home from his command of the B. E. F. First Corps in France in April to be Sir Edmund's Vice Chief and standin. Sir John, 58 and Irish, is accounted the British Army's master of strategy and maneuver, in contrast to Sir Edmund's defensive talents. As a field commander...
...generals of France was not a product of the sacrosanct French War College. He was the product of the late, great Marshal Foch, who made him, bowlegged little cavalry colonel that he was, his chief staff officer purely on a seniority basis, when called upon to form and take command of the famed IX Army for the First Battle of the Marne...
...present battle was history's greatest and most decisive, but the Allied Commander fighting it had also fought history's last two "greatest battles," both desperate actions: at the Battle of the Marne where Weygand saw his chief resist the distraction caused by German pressure on his centre and his left flank, to concentrate on attacking; at Warsaw where in 1920 he himself took command of the Poles, threw back the victorious Reds and kept the tide of Bolshevism out of Europe...
...After trying to abdicate in 1866, when the U. S. had forced the withdrawal of the French troops which supported him, Maximilian next year took over command of the remaining troops, was court-martialed and shot by the victorious Mexican republicans...
Above, on the far right, dive bombers working with the Panzer command have blasted an airport and are landing parachutists to demoralize the enemy rear. Center, the enemy bunkers and pillboxes, strafed from the air, are being attacked by ground troops with anti-tank guns and flamethrowers. Engineers are repairing blasted bridges and building new pontoon bridges to carry tanks across the river. Lower left, tanks of various types wait in hiding while on the hill above a radio car coordinates the battle and the supply train waits to move...