Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration group hoped that the statement would be made soon. Clearly, the time signal would have to be given by President Truman. His next few weeks of talking Big Three policies (see above) might have much to do with setting the clock...
...Come & Get Me." Headlong Admiral Halsey had another ambition. When the fleet got back to respectable strength and the Jap radio still tauntingly asked "Where is Halsey?" he had exclaimed: "I'd like to send a signal giving my latitude & longitude, and dare 'em to come and get me. But Nimitz won't let me." Last week, Fleet Admiral Nimitz still omitted to mention the latitude & longitude, and named only a small part of the strength of Task Force 38. But it was a fair and fearful sample...
Just before daylight, the submarine got under way, slid silently through the naval base's narrow entrance. The sub swished past a sentry, standing with his back to the sea, and blinked a surrender signal to the control tower. The German sub marine, U-530, Lieut. Otto Wermoutt, 25, skipper, had indeed achieved the element of surprise...
...tattered signal flag from a U. S. destroyer on the Murmansk...
...signal man standing nearby whispered: "The smoking lamp is out, sir." He jerked into consciousness, rubbed out his cigaret. He turned to me: "That's the third one we've had this month. And this time it's the best man we've got on the ship. I've watched that kid change slowly from a Middlewest farmer to the best machinist's mate I've seen in the Navy. When we wanted a job done we turned it over to him and that was like saying the job was done...