Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Gen. Douglas MacArthur's amazing little band of airmen appeared tonight--in one smashing blow--to have avenged" with compound interest" the death of every American soldier and sailor who perished at Peal Harbor...
Action in the Marshalls. The yellow Pacific moon saw what the Jap had never thought to see. Spaced along a 200-mile ocean front, from the Marshall to the Gilbert Islands, was an assault force of U.S. cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers, led by a blue-water sailor and naval flyer, Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (see cut, p. 23). They were ready to strike the Jap in his stolen strongholds-2,300 miles from Pearl Harbor, but nearest of all his bastions to Hawaii...
...young British sailor aboard the raft saved my life. 'I'll help you,' he shouted. 'Get this rope under your arms.' He passed a thick, heavy rope under my arms, tied it and flung the end to the quarterdeck of the destroyer. Three sailors slowly pulled me out of the oily mass...
When this course is finished it is expected that you will know something about what a sailor does on a ship; how a big warship is operated; how an air task force is formed, and what it is expected to do; how the Army Commander spends his day; how your chow gets to you (or maybe why it doesn't sometimes); how German units work; the way you distinguish between truth, propaganda and pure, unadulterated BUNK...
Pucelage. At 22 Bowditch first went to sea. Later on he used to say that he never wanted to. He was a strange looking sailor-small (about 5 ft. 4 in.) with a high forehead and already grey hair. He was also "invincibly cheerful." His knowledge of mathematics got him on shipboard "through the cabin window" instead of the usual way, "through the hawsehole"-i.e., he began as a ship's clerk instead of a common sailor...