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answering to male officers. 23 years later, in early Aug 1942, female officer Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee was commissioned into the US Navy amidst World War II to head up the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service program (WAVES). The use of the word "emergency",...
WW2 US Other Vehicles Demolition Tank T31 United States of America (1945-1946) Demolition Tank – 1 Built During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US...
Naval Matters A Willing Foe and Sea-Room! Home About Tag Archives:US Navy German submarine U-185 sunk by US Navy aircraft “on this day in history” 24 August 1943 Posted onAugust 24, 2016 On 24 August 1943, German submarine U-185 (Type IXC/40, Kptlt. A. Maus) sunk by depth char...
Hello, I've got this Naval Aviator wing that I would like the origin to be confirmed ! No marker except "ACID TEST" in raised letters on back (right wing). I found a similar one in the excellent book "UNITED STATES NAVY WINGS OF GOLD" on page 61. If some
“At Ease”, Volume XIII,by Mimi Dworsky, 1944, a book of informal games. Prepared and distributed by The Special Services Division, Army Service Forces for use exclusively in Military and Naval Establishments. Often distributed to patients as a part of the US Army recreational program. ...
(3 October 1944). The unit spent two and a half weeks in staging, and moved to Cherbourg on 26 October 1944, where it took overHospital Plant No. 4266, which had previously been operated by the298th General Hospital. The facility, l’Hôpital Maritime was an old French Naval Hospital ...
1989 US Invasion of Panama 1983 US Invasion of Grenada United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, bu...
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What brought the United States fully into the war was the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.1 In the 1936-39 Spanish civil war, the Roosevelt administration sponsored a neutrality act that had the effect of shutting off help to the ...