Word: sailormen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three hundred, the invading wedge, sailed into the Navy Department's rambling buildings in December 1942 to release deskbound sailormen for more active missions. Since then officers and enlisted personnel of the WAVES have been arriving in blue-clad droves, sometimes at the rate of 1,000 a month, while blue-clad men have been shoving off for sea or overseas duty...
...battle of Midway. Fast and wellarmed, the big Avenger has plenty of interchangeability, can carry bombs, a huge gas tank, or a torpedo in its bomb bay. Airmen like to tell how an Avenger pilot landed on a carrier, opened up his bomb-bay doors and deposited four hitchhiking sailormen on the deck before he and his crew of two climbed down...
...Saga of San Demetrio is a labor of patriotism by the grandniece of Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the author of the remarkable psychological study A Pin to See the Peepshow. Rather touchingly old-fashioned in its style, it is marred by such phrases as "the simple faith of sailormen" and "these unalterable British!" It suffers, inevitably, from being told at secondhand. But it is an honorable and exciting account of an exceedingly honorable, exciting-and true-event...
Then Sydney saw those who did come back. Some came ashore leaning on the arms of other sailormen and waving bandaged hands at the Aussies. Others lay still on their stretchers, piled with blankets. Many were badly burned...
Thur Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright spoke last week to the men on The Rock - the artillerymen and infantry soldiers of the regular garrison, the Marines sailormen and Army men salvaged from Bataan...