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Word: vincke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments they build swank officers' messes in the deep jungles with handsome bars and flagged terraces (to the envy of the hard-living Army). In the South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Can do, Will Do - Did | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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