Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
...Britain's plan for a power bloc of western European countries (TIME, Nov. 13), proposed a year ago by South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, energetically pushed since then by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The London Times had argued: "[The West Bloc] is a necessary complement to the system of security which Soviet Russia ... is building up in eastern Europe. Both for Britain and western Europe [it] represents a departure from tradition. . . . But for both it has become a necessity of the first order...
Armed with 158 cannon, ranging in caliber from 16-inchers (nine) down to 20-mm. antiaircraft pieces, an Iowa needs more than half her complement of 2,500 men simply to man her guns. She is armored with 16-inch plate, is built so ruggedly that the recoil of her main batteries is reduced to an unexciting whoosh in the engine rooms below. Her speed is "more than 30 knots," her maneuverability better than many warships one-tenth as large...
...None of us were amateurs, of course," Suzette explained. "We had all worked at the Bal Tabarin since before the war. But we never collaborated. A year ago the Germans were gathering a complement to send to the Maison Oslo and they did not have quite enough volunteers. So they grabbed us. They told our troop of 42 that it was for six months...
Last week's raid on "the pearl of the Indies" was puny, as carrier raids go nowadays: less than 100 planes, hardly one Essex-class complement. But there were promising factors: 1) for the first time Naval forces from the Mountbatten, Nimitz and MacArthur commands joined together; 2) Javanese, who have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship...