Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L Sullivan,*Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and rumored successor to Secretary Forrestal), lent an influential hand to the rescue of a disabled sloop off the New Hampshire shore. Weekending at Little Boars Head, he reported the craft's plight to the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and a Navy tug towed the sloop ashore...
...jargon of a particular martial trade, gives one molecular view of the campaign. A Brooklyn tankman tells of his disgust when his tank runs out of gas, a Canadian describes the hideous fighting around Caen, a Royal Navy man admits his road sickness when his assault craft is trucked cross-country to the Rhine, a Negro cook tells how he learned to fire a bazooka at Bastogne, a primly petulant American supply officer tells of "a very humiliating experience" when Patton's men kept running off the edge of all available maps (and adds that he will be glad...
...defense, Major General F. L. Martin, commanding general of the Hawaiian Air Force, had only 123 modern pursuit and bombardment planes, a handful of other largely obsolete craft...
...British naval landing parties went ashore in Hong Kong. First, however, it had been necessary to bomb suicide craft in the harbor...
Bright Future. War-fattened Republic Aviation Corp. announced that it would retain between 4,000 and 5,000 workers fulltime, many of them to turn out its new commercial transport. All experimental contracts for war craft have been retained, and certain new military models will continue in production. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announced $180 million worth of peacetime contracts for military and commercial aircraft-enough to keep their Baltimore factory busy on a 40-hour work week until September...