Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single decision by any man or group of men has set or will set the date for the Big Invasion. That date was set when the Allied command decided to invade, was and is being set, repeatedly, each time the commanders make decisions about the number of troops, the conditions of tide, the ammunition and oil stores, etc. that must exist before the attempt is made...
...heard disturbing news about the U-boat's growing effectiveness. New German devices and tactics were steadily increasing the submarines' kill. U.S. scientists, too, were working on new devices, but there was no predicting how soon they might begin to produce results. That winter the Allied high command sweated through perhaps the worst period of the war, awaiting a U-boat campaign which might virtually cut off communication between America and Europe...
After the armistice Captain Barker was in command of the United States Naval Forces in the eastern Mediterranean while at Spalato, Dalmatia, where he was the senior American representative for the arrangement and enforcement of the armistice terms...
...summer of 1919, Captain Barker was appointed inspector at the Naval Academy. From 1922 to 1925 he was aide to the Commander of Destroyer Squadrons, which operated in the Atlantic and later in the Pacific. After this, Captain Barker spent two years on shore duty followed by two years in command of the destroyer-minelayer "Mahan...
From 1929 to 1932, Captain Barker was aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth. Following this, he spent two years as Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser, "Portland." In 1934 he was made professor of Naval Science and Tactics here, but at the end of three years he went back to sea in command of the U. S. S. "Houston." This probably was Captain Barker's favorite command, and he is quoted as having said sadly but proudly of the "Houston," "she went down fighting...