Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They instructed Navy pilots in instrument flying (in Link trainers), taught Navy airmen to shoot. They had become metalsmiths, radiomen, aviation machinist's mates, truck drivers, laboratory technicians, decoders and cooks. There are some 1,000 naval installations in the U.S., and at roughly half of them WAVES are at work. At the Navy Department in Washington there are more Navy women than men. In Hawaii, the farthest place overseas to which Congress would let them venture, the WAVES are competently filling a crying need for yeomen, aviation ratings, hospital corpsmen...
...year-old boy, a machinist's helper at the Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse, earned the top salary: $45 a week...
...Dear Mom. . . ." Stephen Burdette Smith had to lie about his age to get into the Navy back in 1919. He was just 16 when he went off to boot camp at Great Lakes. In 1927, at aviation school, he took his first uncertain solo hop. Fifteen years later Chief Machinist's Mate Smith flew off the Enterprise against Jap-held Kwajalein, and on June 3, 1942, worrying about a photograph he had meant to send to his wife, Smitty in an old TBD chugged into the Battle of Midway...
...Returning from Paramushiro, the pilot of a twin-engined Navy Ventura bomber found that flak had holed the hydraulic-pressure system; there was not enough fluid left to lower the landing flaps. A machinist's mate used the crew's hoard of orange juice and coffee to refill the hydraulic reservoir. It worked...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...