Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formally introduced to the U.S. public, the Army's newest fighter remains the P-61 (Black Widow), twin-engined Northrop night fighter. On Jan. 14 the Black Widow had the peculiar distinction of first seeing the light of publication in a comic strip, NEA Service's Wash Tubbs. Artist Leslie Turner had seen the plane for months, flitting around his home at Orlando...
Sergeant Howard D. Pratt of Spokane, Wash, lost his way, entered a cave, met two German soldiers. Hand grenade ready, he asked the way back. They told him. On second thought, he ordered them to come along as guides. At once, 19 other Germans emerged, surrendered, returned with Sergeant Howard...
...early days of the war, A.A.C.S.'s backlog was six powerful intercontinental weather-and-traffic stations run by the C.A.A. at San Francisco, New Orleans, Everett, Wash., Anchorage, Alaska, New York City and Honolulu. In May 1942, these stations were turned over to the Army Air Forces and tied into the A.A. C.S. network for the duration...
...Eighth Army trudged into Gessapolina, a hilltop hamlet on Italy's Adriatic flank. War had wrecked the terraced cluster of dwellings, scattered their brick walls, shattered their oaken rafters. Through the debris, toward Allied soldiers gathered at the municipal piazza hurried five Italians. One of them paused to wash his hands in the piazza's muddy fountain. Another cried...
Like most U.S. schools last week, the high school at Warden, Wash, was understaffed. Its faculty had, in fact, been halved. The half that was left was Mrs. Jeannette Swain Evans. She was teaching English, history, mathematics, biology, music, handicrafts and bookkeeping. It was the epitome of the wartime teacher-shortage problem (TIME, March...