Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intermediate flight training at Pensacola, Florida, or Corpus Christi, Texas completes the pilot's education and culminates in a commission as ensign in the Naval Reserve. About ten weeks of operational training with a unit must follow, however, before the pilot officers are assigned to active combat overseas...
Martin Bookspan '47 remains as Program Manager, a post he has held for some time. Gerald F. Genn '48 replaces William E. Sullivan '45 in the position of Business Manager, with Sullivan also graduating in June. Charles A. Shaw of the V-12 unit is also retiring because of approaching commencement, and William F. Clark '48 will fill his post as Production Director...
...Cavalry went ashore on Leyte. Their new commander, Major General Verne D. Mudge, in the best tradition of Bull Swift, alerted his men against surprise Jap paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...
...carriers, standing off Kyushu, attacked for three days, raked 19 airfields, destroyed or damaged 284 Japanese planes, bombed railroad lines, storage dumps. U.S. losses: ten planes, one major fleet unit damaged...
...became scarce when hoarders buried and manufacturers melted down copper and nickel coins. Then the Government changed the Brazilian monetary unit from the milreis to the cruzeiro. The paper cruzeiros were ordered printed in the U.S. German submarines sank the entire shipment. But last week an end to Brazil's currency famine was at hand. Frantic officials had rushed a ton of new one and two cruzeiro notes (value: 5? and 10?) from the U.S. to Rio, hoped presently to retire the aspirin tablets...