Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble big or small breaks out elsewhere, Marines are just as likely to be on the job first, because the Corps has a detachment on every battleship and aircraft carrier, all the heavy cruisers (the newer light cruisers), some other Navy craft. In the old Navy, Marines not only manned the tops (and sometimes the guns) but policed the ship. Because they knew no friends when rules were broken, often brought up sailormen for flogging and imprisonment, they were something less than popular...
...odds were appalling: 250,000 Italians against perhaps 150,000 Greeks; the fourth biggest navy in the world against one obsolescent cruiser, ten destroyers, 13 torpedo boats, six submarines and a few miscellaneous craft; 500 modern planes and as many more in reserve against perhaps 200 old crates (Junkers, Gloucester Gladiators, Blackburns, even French planes); the tacit support of Germany, with some 70 divisions of 1,125,000 men poised in the Balkans (according to British sources), against overt help from Britain, militarily pinned down at home and in Egypt. Despite this apparently overwhelming disparity, the Greeks chose to fight...
...this point Curwen's eight clicked and pulled out of the ruck to take a narrow lead. Buck Anderson and Wilson were bow and bow just behind Wagner until a reverse crab, caught near the Mass. Avenue Bridge, stopped the Anderson craft dead in its tracks...
...command. Reorganizing the Air Corps on a wartime basis, he announced that the four Air Corps wings in the continental U. S. (now commanded by brigadiers) would be expanded to 17 as fast as pilots and planes were ready. Army airmen hoped that the 12,800 fighting craft needed would be ready before the promised delivery date (late in 1942), set out to expand the Air Corps's enlisted strength from 45,000 to 163,000. They did not need to worry about pilots. Annual output after next year will...
Bought for $150,000 by the U. S. Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...