Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen of the United States who served in active military or naval duty for an allied nation may receive educational benefits to the same extent as those who served in the American forces, but he will not be eligible if he has received similar benefits from the government under which he served...
Before V-J day, 4,000 men had gathered mysteriously at Tokyo Bay's naval base of Yokosuka. Their working garb was strange, their training secret, their mission vitally important, their fate certain death. These were the first of the fukuryus (crouching dragons), underwater attack units wearing special diving suits and armed with explosive charges. Upon them the Naval Ministry had pinned its hopes of repelling an American invasion of the home islands...
Captain K. Shintani, in charge of the fukuryu program, explained these plans to Commander M. H. Pryor of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission in Japan. He ruefully admitted that the new weapon might not have been decisive, but the Japanese had hoped they would cause as much damage as the Kamikazes (suicide planes), which accounted for 80% of the 223 U.S. ships damaged during the Okinawa campaign...
...Germany, Canada's first big war crimes trial was on. In a paneled room in the onetime naval barracks at Aurich (18 miles northwest of Emden), impassive SS Major General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, 33, stood trial for his life before a Canadian military court. To five charges against him he answered a crisp nein...
Within 18 weeks last summer at the U.S. Naval Training Center at Miami, the Chinese had passed a battery of formidable examinations in gunnery and naval techniques, were equipped to shout, or to heed, such salty orders as "right standard rudder," or "steady...