Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major committee in or out of WPB. Unlike all the czars, he had no recourse beyond WPB on any home-front problem. Example: when washing-machine production was stopped just as women went to work in war plants, there was no home-front voice to insist upon more repair parts for washing machines or to argue that laundries are essential...
...March, the 513th, by now wearing 555 decorations, was ordered home-all except the hard-working ground crew, who had installed 240 motors in the ten B-17s, done other prodigious repair jobs. In the U.S. the 513th will be dissolved, its personnel probably set to training new groups who can hardly hope to see so much of the confused world...
...British, French and U.S. troops on Rommel's flank had not been able to do much yet. They and the sea had served well as the walls of a kind of cylinder. The Eighth Army had been the piston. And if Rommel was now getting compressed beyond repair, it was because the Eighth Army had done such a splendid job of crushing his rear guard at the Wadi el Akarit...
...Summer Tide. The Allies conceded that their counter-measures were so far inadequate. Heavy bombers stormed over submarine repair and construction centers at Wilhelmshaven, Duisburg, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Vegesack, but with limited success. A recent raid on Vegesack, touted as "possibly the heaviest single blow of the war against U-boat production," resulted in damage to seven of 15 unfinished U-boats. Germany's submarine production, to which all other naval building is subordinate, may be as high as 40 a month; Doenitz may already have upward of 600 raiders in his fleet...
...gunners swing fixed shotguns in turrets just like the ones they will use in bombers. At others they fire from a truck going 30 miles an hour around an elliptical track while birds sail past at every angle. In the fourth week, having learned to service machine guns and repair stoppages, they go on to ground machine-gun practice, firing .30s and .50s at targets carried over an irregular, baffling course by mechanically controlled jeeps...