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For military personnel, a tour of duty is usually a period of time spent in combat or in a hostile environment. In an army, for instance, soldiers on active duty serve 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the length of their service commitment. Soldiers in World War II were deployed for the entire war and could be in active service for 4–5 ...
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Sinbad remained aboard Campbell throughout her tour of duty during World War II, caused at least two international incidents in foreign harbors, faithfully manned his battle station during combat, and generally kept the crew amused during her long voyages over eleven years; [1] Sinbad died on 30 December 1951, after many years of service, [2 ...
The Lucky Bastard Club was an informal grouping of World War II European bomber crew members from the Eighth Air Force who completed a tour of duty. [1] The members are the pilots that flew out on a mission to the enemy base and successfully struck their targets and returned to base in spite of the presence of anti-aircraft weapons and enemy fighters. [2]
On that tour of duty, she served as the flagship for the Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Group, 7th Fleet. In that capacity the ship operated in the South China Sea and in the Gulf of Tonkin providing naval gunfire support for the troops ashore and supporting carrier air operations by conducting search and rescue missions for downed aircrews.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a World War II air-combat combat flight simulation game first released in August 1991 [1] by Lucasfilm Games.. It was the last of a trilogy of World War II titles by Lucasfilm Games, the others being Battlehawks 1942 (1988) and Their Finest Hour (1989).
Through her remaining two years of service, Fargo completed two more tours of duty in the Mediterranean, and twice joined in large scale exercises in the Caribbean. She was decommissioned and placed in reserve, berthed at Bayonne, New Jersey , 14 February 1950, [ 1 ] stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 March 1970, and sold on 18 August ...
On 12 January 1945, she reported for World War II duty with the United States Pacific Fleet and, by late April 1945 had joined Service Squadron (ServRon) 10 at Ulithi Atoll in support of the Okinawa campaign. Late in May 1945, she moved to Okinawa for a brief tour of duty, then returned to her base at Ulithi Atoll in mid-June 1945. It is ...