Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon was the only state in World War II to suffer civilian war casualties (six killed by a Jap balloon bomb), and except for California, the only state to be shelled by Jap subs...
...others took the stand; they said much the same thing. There was practical, slight Ernst Brennscheidt, a civilian government employee who might have been working in Berlin today if he had not been sent to Sachsenhausen to test army shoes. His methods were simple. For 14 hours a day, beating them when they dropped, he had marched prison inmates carrying 50-lb. sandbags around & around a half-mile track until the shoes wore out. Then he knew which shoes were faulty...
...calculator has been grinding out answers for the Navy most of each day, but more time will now be allotted to civilian problems...
...Civilian Halsey Slips...
...National Anthem fared less favorably, however, as Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, wearing civilian togs in the president's box with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., forgot to doff his top-piece...