Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied commission representing all four powers could treat Germany as one country under one government. On paper, the arrangement was perfect: General Eisen hower for the U.S., and Russian, British and French members yet to be named would clear all common questions, send common directives to the four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also a focal area in the never...
...after Admiral Doenitz ordered his U-boats to cease hostilities-a convoy bound for Boston battled with a wolf pack and lost the collier Black Point, with twelve dead. One sub which dived to the bottom, 130 feet down, was destroyed by depth bombs...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., after guiding his destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander Roosevelt for the Legion of Merit...
...headed by WPB executive officer John D. Small, is the coordinator for eleven sub committees. All are charged with the job of guiding industry back to civilian goods manufac ture, while maintaining a war output sufficient to insure the defeat of Japan...
Rebuilding Italian towers is only a trifling part of the mammoth job now being done by 16 Allied officers (eight Britons, eight Americans), whose jawbreaking official title is the Allied Sub-commission for Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives in Italy. The title has been briefly translated by G.I.s into "Venus Fixers...