Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the planes came again, and this time added Nagoya in a three-way simultaneous rain of demolition bombs. Next day Superforts made their fourth strike of the week, bombing five Japanese industrial plants and repair bases in the Tokyo area...
...white-haired repair man played sec ond flute and a lathe operator blew the trumpet. A few stuffy music critics regard ed the whole thing as a foolhardy venture...
...Heart Repair...
...Navy was concerned, now was the worst possible time for a man to quit. With the quickening of the war in the Pacific, the greatest need was for rapid ship repair. The Navy no longer made any bones about it: its ships were taking punishment from desperate Jap bombers and Kamikaze planes. One day last week Fleet Admiral Nimitz admitted damage to eleven of his light naval units in the space of 18 hours...
...Laffey limped into Seattle's Elliott Bay from an encounter off Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Six suicidal Jap pilots had smashed their planes into her. Thousands of man-hours would be required to put her back in the war. One day, more ships than could be accommodated at repair docks waited in Elliott Bay. Repair work was given top priority...