World War II Operations
With the expansion of the American Navy during this time between the outbreak of war in Europe and the entry of the United States in the conflict (1939 to 1941), that service cast about for auxiliary vessels to support the growing number of combatant ships.
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Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or operations:
“All in all, I’d say,
the world is strangling.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?”
—Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986)
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
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