Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powerful Navy Unit Foreseen...
...time after Sicily the Army was about ready to scrap the airborne divisions; even some of its most progressive commanders feared that a division was too unwieldy a unit to jump and glide. Ridgway and the other airborne men had to summon all their powers of tact and persuasion. In the end they prevailed, and the divisions survived to undergo the test of D-day in Normandy...
Four hundred fifty more men will join the Navy Supply Corps School Friday to begin four and one-half months' training across the river, boosting the total personnel of the unit to over 900, and thus maintaining the Supply School at its previous enrollment...
Nineteenth class to start instruction in the unit since its founding in June, 1941, the new contingent complements almost 450 men who are already halfway through their training. The school, now under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, USN (retired), is distinct from the Midshipmen-Officers' Unit, which gives a year's training in similar fields...
Midshipmen in training will receive their commissions at the time of their graduation, and most of the men who complete the course will be assigned supply duties afloat. The instruction center, located in the Harvard Business School, has been the only one of its kind in the United States since the closing of a similar unit at Wellesley College...