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  2. P-38 can opener - Wikipedia

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    The P-38 is known as a "John Wayne" by the United States Marine Corps, because of its toughness and dependability. [3] [unreliable source?] The can opener is pocket-sized, approximately 1.5 inches (38 mm) long, and consists of a short metal blade that serves as a handle, with a small, hinged metal tooth that folds out to pierce the can lid.

  3. Can opener - Wikipedia

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    Several can openers with a simple and robust design have been specifically developed for military use. The P-38 and P-51 are small can openers with a cutter hinged to the main body. They were also known as a "John Wayne" because the actor was shown in a training film opening a can of K-rations.

  4. John Wayne (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    John Wayne (1907–1979) was an American actor and filmmaker. John Wayne may also refer to: P-38 can opener, U.S. military equipment sometimes known as the "John Wayne" John Wayne Airport, Orange County, California; John Wayne Elementary School

  5. List of warships by nickname - Wikipedia

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    "HMAS Can Opener" – HMAS Melbourne; given by US Navy sailors for the ship's part in the sinking of the US Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans. Melbourne previously sank another destroyer, HMAS Voyager, in a similar collision. "HMS Me" – HMS Queen Elizabeth; from a cake presented to Elizabeth II during her first visit to the ship. [23]

  6. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...

  7. C-ration - Wikipedia

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    The Reserve Ration was issued during the later part of World War I to feed troops who were away from a garrison or field kitchen. It originally consisted of 12 ounces (340 g) of bacon or 14 ounces (400 g) of meat (usually canned corned beef), two 8-ounce (230 g) cans of hard bread or hardtack biscuits, a packet of 1.16 ounces (33 g) of pre-ground coffee, a packet of 2.4 ounces (68 g) of ...

  8. Resurfaced 1971 Playboy interview of John Wayne goes viral ...

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    Screenwriter Matt Williams tweeted a series of quotes by the iconic actor after reading the Playboy interview, which ran in May 1971: "John Wayne was a straight up piece of s--t," he wrote. The ...

  9. Column: Did John Wayne try to assault Sacheen Littlefeather ...

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    Film authority Farran Nehme. She mentioned Wounded Knee, the South Dakota town occupied at that moment by Native activists marking the massacre of 300 Lakota by the U.S. Army at that site in 1890.

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