Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Ships. The President had to find a new WPBoss-and quick. The man he laid hands on just happened to be in town, between ships. He was 230-03. Lieut. Commander Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, 36, who was WPB's able No. 3 man until he went into the Navy five months ago. Krug, fresh from Europe, was waiting for reassignment to sea duty when Franklin Roosevelt hurriedly summoned him to the White House...
Next day, reluctantly, Cap Krug was out of Navy blues and into a grey-brown suit. He could expect a handful of resignations. The first: able Sidney J. Weinberg, who had been specifically drafted into WPB for the weird job of keeping the peace between Messrs. Nelson and Wilson...
...Could Cap Krug expect to have full control at WPB ? No one knew. A reporter asked the President if Nelson would return to WPB after his China trip. The President dismissed it as an "iffy" question, too far in the future (see The Presidency...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
...Pearl Harbor, the first on board the cruiser was General Douglas MacArthur, in leather windbreaker and his jaunty marshal's cap. MacArthur had flown in that day from New Guinea...