Word: ekdahl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrote wounded Private Carl G. Ekdahl of Providence, R.I.: "I . . . hope to get back to my outfit in the near future. I've got more to fight for now as most of my buddies will be staying on that island forever. People back home will never know what it was like to take Iwo Jima. . . . All the time . . . I never feared for myself be cause I knew the Lord was with...
Manager Ruhl had never made a gun or a gun part. Nor, so far as he knew, had any of his workmen. The specialized knowledge had to come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...