Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine is a diesel only one-third as big and only a fraction of the weight of the best former diesels of the same horsepower. The propeller is the first marine screw whose blades can be adjusted to any angle or can be completely reversed while the boat is in motion. Results...
...were part & parcel of the Battle of the Atlantic. Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
...feet, twice the usual operational limit of depth charges. A newly improved motor has also helped give some U-boats greater speed at sharp-angle crash-diving. Such German submarines, the brain children of Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz (TIME, Feb. 2), are now powered with a single, modified diesel engine that burns oil in surface cruising and a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen when submerged. Other submarines use oil-burning diesels on the surface, electric motors under water...
...have in use two tractors: one 'Caterpillar' 4O-h.p. diesel, 1937 model, and another a John Deere diesel model 'A', I also have a 10-h.p. diesel motor for other purposes...
...they will not compete with Liberty ships for steel plate. They will be built with local labor whose skills have been handed down from generation to generation, and they will be manned with Caribbean crews. Almost the only demand they will make on U.S. production will be for auxiliary diesel engines. These are already being assembled at New Orleans...