Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only five days after his task force had struck savagely at Truk Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher was hitting the Japs again: this time the Marianas Islands, 650 miles northwest of Truk, 1,400 miles south of Tokyo, were the targets...
...beyond denying Truk the defense to which it was entitled, the Japs didn't seem to want to fight at Saipan, Tinian, Guam-bastions far to the northwest of Truk. Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces hit these bases and Truk within the space of five days (see col. 3), probably without returning to base to refuel or rearm...
...speed. Plug in the two-way radio to order your dinner ahead. ... For a short cut across a river ... the Amphibian is at home on the water. . . . Navigation lights are for cruising on a Venetian night. The four-wheel drive shifts to propellers. . . . The air-cooled motor in the rear operates air conditioning and heating." But dream-car talk usually starts production-minded auto men to shattering their glass-topped desks. They have patiently explained that the first postwar cars will be 1942 models, that dream cars may not come until five or ten years later. But designers, unperturbed, like...
...fleet (commanded by Admiral Spruance) boldly stood off Truk while planes from Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher's carriers worked away. By the end of the first day enemy air opposition had been beaten out of existence...
...supervise the Eniwetok amphibious operation Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner sent one of his most trusted deputies, handsome, grey Rear Admiral Harry Wilbur Hill, who also had charge of the Tarawa phase of the Gilberts operation...