Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name U.S. Marines and Navymen gave to Japanese light surface units which reinforced Guadalcanal...
...week. She carried several hundred Seabees for the U.S. Naval Operating Base in Londonderry. The Navy's new crew of construction and repair men were a few days late for a celebration: the base had just passed its first anniversary. But they were not too late to hear navymen sing the praises-embroidered with profane complaints-of Derry, one of the secrets of U.S. enterprise in World War II, just being made public...
Less than ten months after the destroyer escort contract was signed, DEs were plopping into the water so fast it startled even veteran Navymen, and average building time was being slashed two-thirds. All this worked wonders in Washington where the Navy started shoveling out new Brown shipbuilding contracts so fast that the infant company's backlog is now over $300,000,000-more orders on hand than giant 38-year-old Bethlehem Steel had three years...
...ahead. At 66, Erich Raeder can tell himself that he did not get to his present place from having been, like Himmler or Ribbentrop, a product of Nazi politics, thrown suddenly into jobs where all the emphasis was on ruthlessness or adroitness rather than craftsmanship. British and U.S. Navymen consider him an able officer, profound rather than brilliant, a deep-water seaman and organizer rather than a technical expert. He is the German nation's living link with the proud traditions of bearded old Alfred von Tirpitz, father of the blue-water Navy...
Admiral King also got a Chief of Staff (for the fleet). Rear Admiral Russell Willson, to take more work off his hands. Navymen knew that "Rey" King did not give a Bosun's curse for old Navy tradition. If any ranker in the Navy could make them pop, things would now pop. And COMINCH King (who changed the abbreviation from CINCUS) finally had the popper all to himself...