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1990 Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79 1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75 1975 Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command), dies at 86 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey 1962 U.N. command forbids flights to Katangese airports 1962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" 1958 U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) 1947 William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in New York City 1945 Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe 1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms 1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army 1940 Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes 1940 U.S. Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York 1934 SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps 1927 International allies military command in Germany disbands 1918 7 U.S. soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command and shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more 1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia 1864 General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN 1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee 1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West 1862 Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi 1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC 1862 Gen Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI 1861 Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army 1861 CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory 1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 1861 Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies 1860 Thomas J. Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry 1856 Jacobus C J Hermans, actor, 7th Command 1775 George Washington takes command of U.S. troops 1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

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