Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's Rear Admiral L. W. Murray was given command of a joint U.S.Canadian anti-submarine program which, dovetailing with Britain's R.A.F., would give air and naval protection to Europe-bound convoys. With a chain of bases extending from the Canadian mainland across Greenland and Iceland to Britain, Allied long-range bombers would provide mile-by-mile protection and reconnaissance. The Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy had long been bearing much of the Atlantic burden; the appointment of Admiral Murray indicated that they will bear more...
...Chief of the U.S. Armored Force, like any other sound soldier, sees no reflection on his tanks, only the result of the ebb & flow of battle doctrine. Said he: "While capable of smashing through the severest obstacle, [the armored division's] most important use is against vital enemy rear areas . . . air, armor, artillery and infantry must be properly combined and their individual capabilities exploited. ... The tank, like the battleship and the airplane, is merely a means of carrying fire power to the enemy...
Supply. The facts, as Brown reported them: some American boys haven't seen a movie since they landed out there; soldiers in rear areas see films occasionally, but the Pacific area needs at least 50 projectors right now; about 1% of the men hear radio programs...
...pressed Special Services Division. With morale equipment, as with every other kind of Army equipment, the basic problem is a heartbreaking one: how to get it there. Considering the Army as a whole, U.S. forces are as well equipped for the fighting man's off-duty relaxation in rear areas as any army in history...
...Garand rifles need no longer be fired to line up the sights for factory tests. A new method of testing the sights, developed in the General Electric laboratories, uses a plug holding a mirror inserted in the barrel to line up images of front and rear sights on a screen. Time, ammunition and manpower are thus saved...