Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.N. Pearl Harbor...
...have the very distinct impression that the first man in World War II to win the Congressional Medal was a Negro aboard one of the ships at Pearl Harbor when the Japs attacked. Did I dream it, or did a Negro perform one of the outstanding feats of heroism at Pearl Harbor? If I didn't dream it, who was the man, and where can I find the details of what happened and what honors the man received...
...wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
They called themselves "the silent service" and their exploits were inscribed in greasy logbooks and terse messages ("Sturgeon no longer virgin") radioed back to COMSUBPAC headquarters at Pearl Harbor. From their voyages came stories of watching horse races in Tokyo Bay through their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations...
Comet was started as a die-casting shop in 1919 by the Slonim brothers' immigrant father. When the two sons came into the business during the mid-'30s, they parlayed their hobby of toy soldiers into a profitable sideline. Three days after Pearl Harbor, Comet got its first Government order, made 50,000 model warships for the Navy. In 1943, its peak year, it turned out more than $2,000,000 in models for the Government, everything from a ½-in. U.S. infantryman in full battle dress (price: $1.85 a dozen) to a complicated submarine with a finished...