Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This man, Admiral King, is also an airman, as is his chief of operations, Rear Admiral Home. The Navy also undertook to tear down the walls between its many jealous bureaus (Ordnance, Supplies, Medicine, etc.) by putting all procurement under one man, Admiral Robinson. Symptomatically, in the naval building program, aircraft carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers have a new prominence. So has speed in all ships...
They are landing in Northern Ireland and England, and they will land in France." There were more signs. General Somervell did not arrive alone in England. He arrived with an imposing accompaniment of special U.S. talent: Rear Admiral Jack Towers, head of the Naval Air Service; Lieut. General Hap Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower, operations chief of the Army General Staff; Brigadier General William C. Lee, hard-bitten boss of the Army's parachutists and airborne troops...
...connection with new duties [unspecified] which His Royal Highness is undertaking," The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard was made a rear admiral in the Dutch Navy, a major general in the Dutch Army...
When winter came, "the Russians were able to break through in the night over frozen rivers, lakes and morasses. . . . One bad report followed another. . . . In the south the Russians were in our rear; and in the center the Russians were in our rear; and in the north the Russians were in our rear. Guerrillas blew up our railways and ambushed our supplies. Our troops nearly froze to death in the grim cold...
...significant U.S. military mission arrived in London this week. Leading it were Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Force Chief, and Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the Navy's aeronautics bureau. U.S. pilots & planes had already arrived to bolster the R.A.F.'s second front in the air; now the nation's two air chiefs followed...