Word: complement
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Matter of Seconds. At 7 p.m. His Majesty's Submarine Truculent was headed up the Thames estuary for the Chatham Naval Base, after a diving test cruise in the North Sea. Aboard was her regular complement of six officers, 55 men, plus 18 civilian Navy yard technicians who had been checking up on recent repairs to the Truculent...
Less than an hour later, the Navy announced that the aircraft carrier Boxer, with a normal complement of 90 planes, and two escorting destroyers, would beef up the 7th Task Fleet based on the Philippines. Next day the Joint Chiefs said they would leave next month for a conference with MacArthur and an inspection trip of U.S. forces in Japan "contemplated for several months...