Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time to Go Home. Shortly after 6 p.m., three olive-drab Army trucks rolled up to Montgomery Ward's main entrance. Out jumped a 44-man unit of battle-helmeted Military Police under command of Lieut. Ludwig Pincura. Bayonets glinted in the afternoon sun. Followed by four enlisted men, Lieut. Pincura began his bloodless invasion. On the eighth floor the five pairs of Army brogans clattered across the green-and-white-squared linoleum, then moved noiselessly through the deep-carpeted executive offices...
...none could deny that he had now spoken up with soldierly candor. Once more his own substantial claims to military glory, and his efforts to obtain bigger military allotments for his command, could be judged on their merits alone...
From March, 1942, until last October, the Colonel was with the 1st Service Command General Staff, from which he returned to the earlier local position before reporting to his present command...
...graduate of the Class of 1924 from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, and from the Army War College in 1931, Colonel Purdon was on the War Department General Staff from 1932 to 1936, and following his three year voluntary retirement, he returned to active duty in January, 1941, with the Inspector General's Department of the 1st Service Command...
Chief "Crash" Davis, second in command of the Navy athletics program here, and formerly a star athlete at Duke University and a member of the Philadelphia Athletics, has been helping Coach Stahl with the team this year...