Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavier landing craft, following in, brought more troops, light vehicles, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. Then as the beachheads were established, the Army started its materiel pouring in-armored cars, field artillery, heavy trucks, supplies, ordnance repair crews, signal equipment...
Built at Clydebank, Scotland, in 1896, she was one of the finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
...Navy reported that it had won out in a great engineering adventure which has made U.S. warships, pound for pound, the most efficient craft on the seven seas. Its new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbine has succeeded beyond its rosiest hopes. The new design...
...Candid Craft. The troop-carrying glider is a candid sort of aircraft, no secrets, nothing concealed. Canvas fabric covers the fuselage; in flight it vibrates like a drumhead. The whole craft is springy and alive as a new buggy. Pilot and copilot sit up in the blunt, transparent nose, a single row of instrument dials in front of them. The noise of rushing air is astonishing...
...present all large ships carry a chaplain, and soon battleships, carriers and hospital ships will each have two. Men on destroyers and submarines see a chaplain when their vessels meet larger craft. For shipboard service men "rig for church" by setting up an altar, raising the blue and white church flag during hymns, prayers and sermon...