Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently the scales were being slowly tipped. Algeria-based bombers of Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force blasted Axis fields, crippling Axis fighter operations by bombing their nests. From Libya and from the island of Malta came other Allied bombers. Fighter bases were improvised in the rear of the rolling First Army, and from these, in swelling numbers, Spitfires rose to mix with swooping Axis dive-bombers...
...Russians claim an astounding record for saving the lives of wounded men -only 1.5% exclusive of battle deaths, die of their wounds. Last fortnight Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, Navy's Surgeon General, told Northwestern University's medical and dental students about the U.S. record on Guadalcanal. It is even better, though on a smaller scale: less than 1% have died, compared to 7% in World War I. Biggest improvement is in abdominal wounds-5% deaths, compared to World...
...three months the committee had investigated the plant, organized by William S. ("Pete") Newell, president of Bath Iron Works and good friend of Maritime Commission head Rear Admiral Emory S. Land. Pete Newell and associates had organized the firm with $250,000 borrowed from Portland banks (the interest to be paid by the Maritime Commission) and up to Oct. 31 had received $450,000 in fees from the Commission...
...dining hall is named to Thomas Jefferson Cowie, in whose honor a plaque is hung on the wall stating: "Thomas Jefferson Cowie, Rear Admiral Supply Corps, U. S. Navy. At his insistence, the first attempts to serve a healthily balanced ration in the Navy were made in in 1882 on board the U. S. S. New Hampshire. He banished 'salt horse and cracker bash' from the high seas...
...next night the Americans attacked once more. A task force under Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. attacked what was left of the Japanese. Lee's force included two battleships. Judging by their performance, they were probably 16-inchers of the North Carolina or improved South Dakota types. The Jap forces contained altogether four battleships. Whether the battlewagons trained guns specifically on each other was not clear this week, but it is certain that the U.S. 16-inchers did plenty of hurt to the enemy...