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World War 1: World War Ii
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Even before World War II, the U.S. Navy was eyeing nuclear energy as a power source for long-range submarines. After the war, the Air Force, too, focused on a nuclear-powered dream machine: a bomber capable of remaining aloft for weeks at a stretch. In 1949 the AEC authorized the Oak Ridge National laboratory (ORNL) to design its reactor power plant. The nuclear plane posed two formidable challenges, could a reactor manage to loft a plane laden with bombs, crew, and--mainly--itself and its shielding? And given the impractical weight of conventional shielding--7 feet of concrete--could the crew survive the radiation exposure? To study the shielding problem, two reactors were built.
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There were 9,300 Merchant Mariners killed and over 12,000 wounded during World War II. The Merchant Marines suffered the highest casualty rate of ANY service during WWII with 1 in 26 Merchant Mariners killed.
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This database contains the surviving service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who served in WWI and did not re-enlist in the Army prior to World War II. The type of information contained in these records includes: name of solider, age, birthplace, occupation, marital status, and regiment number.
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