Word: rearmor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edison thought that the Navy should rearmor, redesign the topsides of its ships to resist bomb fragments, flying splinters. Naval top hats last week indicated that they leaned more to increasing the numbers of anti-aircraft guns on the ships. Whatever the method they eventually decided on, they had substantially conceded Charles Edison's point. It would be a long job, in any case. To rearm or rearmor ships now with the Fleet would take five to six years, the Navy Department announced. In that case, the seven months lost between May and December 1940 probably made no difference...
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