Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Doris Duke Cromwell appeared undisturbed by the fact that her divorce is good in Nevada, no good in New Jersey, questionable in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Manhattan gossip columnists reported that she had joined the United Seamen's Service, was training as a hostess, might be assigned to duty overseas...
Announcement of the Navy V-6 Radio Technician Program, a new ten months' course in advanced electronics was made by the War Service Information Office last night. Those qualifying for the program will be assigned to the Navy Radio School in Chicago as Seamen. First Class, and will be given a course on the theory and operation of submarine detection and radio finder apparatus, communication equipment, and other electronic devices...
...Allies, the crushing load pressed most heavily on sunny General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, his brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...
...large-scale review, first since the Navy Day celebration last October 27 in which, almost 5000 seamen and officers were inspected, will include men from the Communications, Supply Corps, Electronics, Naval ROTC, and V-12 Units, as well as the WAVES stationed at Radcliffe's Briggs Hall...
...means all of the Navy's men man ships. About 750,000 of them belong to the Navy's air arm, which has grown mightily since battleship-bred admirals discovered there was more to air power than met their seamen's eyes. The Navy, which had 7,631 aviators in 1942, now has some...