Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place, they did surprise them about the exact time. Eisenhower disregarded the traditional requirement-high tide just before dawn-and compromised on the weather. Furthermore his tactical fighters had put out the eyes of the Germans: in the last few days before landing Allied rocket planes had smashed every radar station they could find on the invasion coast...
First assembling by the baseball diamond at 1:15 o'clock for final rehearsal, the Naval ROTC, V-12, Pre-Radar, Communications, Supply, Supply-Midshipmen, and WAVES outfits will be under the direction of Comdr. M. E. Paradise, USNR, who serves as Brigade Commander for the second consecutive year...
...most of the 4,230 officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps who were enrolled in courses at the Graduate School of Engineering during the past academic year, radar, one of the major developments of the war, was the basis of their training, Dean Harald M. Westor gaard said yesterday in his annual report...
During the year a total of 2,606 officers were admitted to the training courses in electronics and cathode ray tubes in preparation for work with radar equipment, while 1,420 officers were enrolled in the pre-training course in this field. The report went on to say that 204 Army officers had been given instruction in the control of soils in airport and in general military construction...
...armed services must have 1,400,000 more men, almost all to be drawn from essential industries. Meantime, they pointed out, critical industries are short of manpower right now. Aircraft plants need 200,000 workers, navy yards 5,000 for construction of submarines alone, radio and radar factories 30,000, synthetic-rubber plants...