Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When these bedrock facts are firmly in hand, OCR will try to wangle an increase in certain civilian articles, the resumption of manufacture of others. The bulk of additional goods will be in "irritation items," large in U.S. usage, small in material requirements: needles, razor blades, nails, bobby pins, repair parts for household appliances and cars. OCR knows better than to ask manufacture of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators (200,000 are still frozen...
Heavier landing craft, following in, brought more troops, light vehicles, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. Then as the beachheads were established, the Army started its materiel pouring in-armored cars, field artillery, heavy trucks, supplies, ordnance repair crews, signal equipment...
...July 4 this week the U.S. Eighth Air Force celebrated a technical anniversary by giving an aircraft factory at Le Mans in France its second bombing of the week ("They can just cross that factory off the list"). Fortresses also attacked airplane repair shops at Nantes and U-boat pens at La Pallice...
...precipitous northern coast. On the port of Messina, the chief point of entry for supplies from the mainland, they dumped the biggest Sicilian bomb loads. (But none down the volcanic throat of nearby Mt. Etna- On both island and mainland the targets were carefully chosen: airdromes with their repair shops and grounded aircraft, railway junctions, gun emplacements, munitions and gasoline dumps. Said a veteran of Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, describing an attack on three airdromes: "It was the best job of Allied bombing I have ever seen...
...bolstered with stronger weapons. These include : 1) more escort ships and planes for convoys; 2) reorganized defenses and new defenses set up at strategic shore and island points; 3) a newly developed long-distance aerial patrol; 4) secret anti-submarine devices; 5) the strategic bombing of submarine bases, repair docks and factories...