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Word: signalman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home. None of the girls had been to the U.S. before, almost all were young (average age: 20), some had small babies (there were 14 in all). Very few of them had seen their husbands for many a month. Said blue-eyed, self-assured Mavis, who met her signalman husband Edward Austin Humphreys at a Sydney zoo more than two years ago: "You know I'm forgetting how he looks and how he talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Homecoming | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...last week Heidt Time produced two apparently bona fide candidates. One was a signalman who had served on the aircraft carrier Enterprise', the other was a U.S. Army tank-destroying veteran of Tunisia. Both men got job offers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heroes for Hire | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...terse message went back to the task unit's flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Scratch the Pigboats | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Victory in Kula Gulf | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Lieut-Comdr. William B. Dortoh, USNR, for dePauw University, III., where he will be commanding officer of the V-12 Unit, while Ensign Frank W. Patrick, USNR, formerly chief Specialist in charge of Navy Scl physical training, will direct the V-12 athletics at the University of Minnesota. Chief Signalman Kurt R. Groote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lieutenant Hodnett Chosen To Head V-12 Program Here | 6/18/1943 | See Source »

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