Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first blow of the attack was driven home by the R. A. F. under command of Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, who got the second highest bag of any British flier in World War I (60 planes) and about the most decorations. Everything the R. A. F. could get off the ground went out-from slick new Hurricanes recently brought East, to heavy old Glosters. vibrating like aerial pianos. Just as the Germans did on May 10 in the Low Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right...
...knew horseflesh were put in charge of tanks, and all the brilliant experimenters with mechanization were put out of the way-one was retired, another sent to command a second-class district in India, where there were no mechanized troops, another given an anti-aircraft division...
...snapped the General, brushing Newsman Allen's prepared list aside. "There is, however, something I want to say. ... I am here to serve my country. That country is Marshal Pétain incarnated. There is not any second France. There is only one. I have been delegated to command all French Africa. My mission is to maintain the unity of French Africa in itself and the unity of French Africa with the metropolis of France. Africa is one with France and General Weygand is one with Marshal Pétain...
...crisis was supposed to have said: "If Italy wins, I will be Emperor of Ethiopia but if Italy loses, I will be King of Italy." He may have been thinking along the same lines last week. There were rumors that Crown Prince Umberto had offered to resign the Army command he shared with Marshal Badoglio, that II Duce had refused his resignation...
...corps until 13 days after the Brandywine defeat. There are also letters to prove that Conway and Gates were two of the most respected and able officers in the Continental Army. Cleared of the charge of cowardice after his defeat at Camden, S. C., Gates was second in command of the Army when the war ended. Washington had to exaggerate stray rumors of a cabal to cover up his inability to discipline his own troops, his inability to win battles...