Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hong Kong, Manila, Formosa, Truk, rear bases in Japan proper. In the air, they have a string of airfields from Manchukuo, through China, down the Indo-China and Thailand promontory, along the Malaysian chain to Borneo, the Celebes, New Guinea and the Solomons...
...incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube. Declared Rear Admiral Stanford C. Hooper last week: "Radio directed and reported the destruction." Even at the very hour that war began the electron tube was the first to serve the nation. On Dec. 7, 1941 the electron tube caught the mutter of Japanese aircraft when they were 132 miles away from Pearl Harbor...
...crew that takes off from San Francisco in the Mary Ann is exquisitely ordinary. Among them are lanky, quiet Pilot Captain Quincannon (John Ridgely), who takes along one of his baby's dolls for good luck; moonfaced, wisecracking Waist Gunner Weinberg (George Tobias); tough, sullen Rear Gunner Winocki (John Garfield), who broods bitterly because he was washed out as a pilot. Crew chief, mechanic and handy man is sentimental old Sergeant Pop White (Harry Carey), who is corny and just right...
...Newport News, Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commander of the carrier Yorktown when she was sunk after Midway, June 7, was midstream in a speech celebrating the launching of a new carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...
Missing on Duty. Rear Admiral Robert Henry English, 55, commander of the Pacific Fleet's submarine force; somewhere near the west coast. A plane carrying him from Pearl Harbor circled near San Francisco, disappeared in the fog, four days later had not yet been heard from. He commanded the submarine 0-4 in War I, won the Navy cross for patrol duty, was made commander of the Pacific submarines...