1. "They were billeted in a mansion commandeered from its owner."
2. My Guess: The way the word sounds by the surrounding sentences makes it out to sound like it means to use force on someone as if they were forced into the mansion.
3. Definition: (verb) To obtain lodging; stay; to assign lodging
Source: Dictionary.com
4. Explanation: So it doesn't mean forced at all, it means that was the house they were assigned temporarily to stay in, while waiting to be picked up by a family.
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