Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weapon. Grand Admiral Doenitz had not been CINC for long. Only three months ago he replaced Erich Raeder as the head of Hitler's Navy, and the shift in command was a tip-off on the Nazis' future strategy. For Karl Doenitz was a submariner from away back. A submariner he remained, in personal command of the U-boat fleet...
...last, lay in the slender, lonely little craft effectively typed "torpedo carriers." When he took the supreme command, he pledged: "The entire German Navy will henceforth be put into the service of inexorable U-boat warfare." From his headquarters somewhere in Axis Europe last week, Doenitz wielded a potent weapon...
...Weapon's Master. After World War I ended, Doenitz made himself a specialist in submarine warfare. By 1930, he was convinced that Hitler and the Nazis would have the strength to break the terms of the Versailles Treaty, which forbade U-boats to Germany, and he attached himself to them...
Mechem, speedy defenseman, was both an offensive and defensive weapon for Coach Johnny Chase last winter, in the most successful ice season enjoyed by the Harvard six since the days of Austie Harding. Mechem's potent body-checks and frequent solo sorties made him a man to be feared throughout the circuit...
...brought up Siberian reserves, braced themselves for the shock of yet another great German offensive. Moscow showed confidence, but no complacency. Pravda remarked soberly that although the Luftwaffe had lost 5,090 planes during the winter, still "the enemy's air fleet is very strong and a potent weapon in the hands of the German command...