Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subdivision of the V-1 program has been announced, forming sub-classes V-1 (G) and V-1 (S), which involves many minor changes. Those in V-1 (G) are men who on the basis of the qualifying exams will transfer into V-5 or V-7 for active duty or engineering officers, this last class requiring college math and physics...
...lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics and twirling six-shooters, you have tanks, motorcycles, hand grenades, sub-machine guns...
...tour came to seem very arranged, like a Hollywood tour for a Hollywood premiere. Most of the heroes were strange heroes to the towns they visited. The best known was Ensign Donald F. Mason, who radioed the "Sighted sub, sank same" message. None were as fixed in the public mind as earlier Heroes Eddie O'Hare, John D. Bulkeley, Hewitt T. Wheless (see cuts), who also had been toured and feted and cheered. There was little spontaneity about the receptions. The newspapers covered the welcomes adequately, but there were no inspired stories-the story was all covered...
...spite of U.S. and British destroyers, sub-chasers, corvettes, far-ranging aircraft, of small private boats on patrol duty, of R.A.F. bombing of submarine plants in Germany, Axis torpedoes were still blowing in cargo bottoms of the United Nations; 337 sinkings had been acknowledged by the U.S. Navy since Jan. 14. Nevertheless, the U.S. was learning things...
...Once in the Near East, the German would be near British oil-the great wealth of the Iraq fields. These fields (with Russia's) are the last big oil source for a vast strategic area in which the Japanese have already snatched the rest of the wells. The sub-harried tankers of the United Nations could not make up the deficit for many exhausting months to come...