Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes of Rear Admiral Al fred E. Montgomery's force made 727 sorties, lost only four aircraft...
...Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date...
...personnel was disabled. The Air Force medicos learned that enlisted men are less susceptible than officers -because officers, on the whole, have livelier imaginations. A high incidence of mental disturbance might have been expected among tail gunners, for at that time enemy fighters habitually attacked bomber formations from the rear, and tailgunner casualties were high. But tail gunners generally were sound, cheerful and proud: the position carried prestige and there was competition...
...nonsense'' is one of the few print1-able phrases among combat soldiers in Italy for the rules that trip them up in rear areas. Regulations about saluting, wearing underwear, having your wrist watch on the outside of the wrist get little sympathy or understanding from the man from a foxhole...
...Pensacola and won his wings, he caught on fast, for an aviation ancient. Since then barrel-chested, rough-&-ready Jake Fitch has served only in aviation jobs: he commanded the seaplane tenders Wright, Langley, served in the carrier Saratoga; commanded the carrier Lexington, and was aboard her as a Rear Admiral when she was torpedoed in the Coral...