Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considered the return of the German Air Force to the west as a triumph for the R.A.F., though it meant trouble. They stopped worrying about being invaded, resting on the hope that after the Russian battle Adolf Hitler could not give his troops rest, move them, regroup them, re-equip them and send them across the Channel before another spring...
...Agustin Muñoz Grande, a few days ahead of his rag-tag-&-bobtail Spanish volunteers who will help Germany fight Russia. This Spanish response to Adolf Hitler's call for a crusade against Communism was not important as a gift of men (the Germans will have to equip the Spanish volunteers). Far more important was Hitler's success in turning Spain from a sullen suppliant to an open opponent...
Inside Syria the Axis Armistice Commission had been happily taking inventory of the supply dumps left over from General Maxime Weygand's Army of the Levant: said to be enough materiel to equip 100,000 men and keep them in the field during a brief campaign...
...Army will be doing very well if that estimate is made good. If General Wesson's fears for delayed ordnance production are fulfilled, it will take more than a year to equip the Army. At super-human best, peak production on most of the schedules already drawn will not be reached before 1942. Since aircraft production has first place on these schedules, the rest of the Army can hardly expect to fare faster or better than the Air Corps...
...Enough has been given so far to completely equip one air-raid shelter, purchase several pair of shoes, and some children's knitted underwear," was the statement from E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, chairman of the drive. All funds collected go to British War Relief to purchase supplies here for shipment...