Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Look, First Blood. Putting in at Montevideo on her shakedown cruise in 1939, the Helena got her first look at war when she passed close aboard the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, scuttled in the bay. Her second, closer look came at Pearl Harbor. She was hit, and that day her crew became a fighting team. Her 5-in. anti-aircraft battery, her light weapons spoke with the trained, nervous insistence of a machine. Helena knocked down six Jap planes that calamitous...
...press demands for the second front dropped off abruptly as the conference opened. By now every major detail of what the U.S. and British armies can do arid will do in Europe must have been fully explained to the Russians. But both U.S. and Russian sources in Washington predicted closer military collaboration by Soviet leaders with the Anglo-U.S. Combined Chiefs of Staff...
...Most substantial chunk in the speech for U.S. citizens to chew on was Ambassador Gromyko's "belief" that the Soviet Union expects to cooperate with the U.S. after the war : "The present joint struggle against our common foe-Hitlerite Germany and her allies in Europe-will bring about closer collaboration of our countries in the postwar period, in the interests of general peace." Discreetly tucked away behind the garnishing was a small tough bite. The Soviet still knows when the war really started and who stopped Hitler: "During the entire two years of this stubborn struggle . . . the heaviest burden...
Along a 2,000-mile front of islands and ocean in the south and southwest Pacific, the Allies crept closer towards Japan's muscular inner perimeter of defense. Towards the Gilberts, the northern Solomons, western New Guinea-outposts where Japan is fighting to hold off that advance-Allied forces announced some progress last week...
...Officer is closer to the ship's captain than the Communications officer," Captain Paul R. Heineman, USN, commanding officer of an anti-submarine warfare unit of the Atlantic fleet, told his listeners at the NTS (Communications) graduation exercises in Sanders Theatre last Thursday morning...