Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imperial Japanese Navy was dead. Of the world's third largest fleet, which once had ranked close behind those of the U.S. and Britain, there was nothing left on the surface but a few battered hulks, almost beyond repair, plus perhaps a division of three cruisers and two or three squadrons of destroyers; below the surface, a few score life-size submarines and two or three times as many midgets -enough to be a nuisance...
Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
Parking Lot. Whatever needs repair is left behind, at great collecting points. In NÜrnberg, as the liberated remnants of the Wehrmacht plod homeward past the great stadium where Hitler ranted, they see it turned into a vast parking lot. where thousands of vehicles, artillery and materiel of all kinds await redeployment...
...Army tentatively hoped to save 70% of its European equipment for use in the Far East. Then, that estimate seemed high. But much materiel proved to be in far better shape than expected because i) once the Rhine was passed, the rate of attrition fell rapidly to zero, 2) repair more than kept pace with losses. General George Patton's Third Army alone has put back into working order 348,000 pieces of equipment, ranging from rifles.to tanks...
...very simple. Abraham Fishgold, 28, got back his job as a welder after being honorably discharged from the Army. But later, men had to be laid off at Brooklyn's Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair Corp. And Fishgold was one of them, because his seniority- including time in the service-was less than that of old hands...