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McHale's Navy, the Glossary

McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network.^[1]

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Military comedy television series
Television series about the United States Navy
Television series set in 1942
Television series set in 1943
Television shows set in Oceania
World War II television comedy series

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alcoa Premiere (also known as Premiere, Presented by Fred Astaire) is an American anthology drama series sponsored by the Alcoa Corporation that aired from October 10, 1961, to September 12, 1963, on ABC. McHale's Navy and Alcoa Premiere are black-and-white American television shows and television series by Universal Television.

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Aleutian Islands campaign

The Aleutian Islands campaign was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Ann Elder

Ann Elder (born Anna Velders; September 21, 1942, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, producer and screenwriter.

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Ann McCrea

Ann McCrea (born February 25, 1931) is an American film and television actress.

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Arte Johnson

Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson (January 20, 1929 – July 3, 2019) was an American actor and comedian who was best known for his work as a regular on television's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

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Avalon, California

Avalon is the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island, in the California Channel Islands, and the southernmost city in Los Angeles County.

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Axel Stordahl

Axel Stordahl (August 8, 1913 – August 30, 1963) was an American arranger and composer who was active from the late 1930s through the 1950s.

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Barbara Werle

Barbara May Theresa Werle (October 6, 1928 – January 1, 2013) was an American actress, dancer and singer, best known for her role in Seconds (1966).

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Bernard Fox (actor)

Bernard Lawson (11 May 1927 14 December 2016), better known as Bernard Fox, was a Welsh actor.

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Bernie Kopell

Bernard Morton Kopell (born June 21, 1933) is an American character actor known for his roles as Siegfried in Get Smart from 1966 to 1969 and as Dr.

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Bill Quinn

William Tyrell Quinn (May 6, 1912 – April 29, 1994) was an American character actor of film and television.

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Billy Sands

Billy Sands (January 6, 1911 – August 27, 1984) was an American character actor who appeared as a regular on The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt Bilko) as Pvt.

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Bivouac shelter

A bivouac shelter or bivvy (alternately bivy, bivi, bivvi) is any of a variety of improvised camp site or shelter that is usually of a temporary nature, used especially by soldiers or people engaged in backpacking, bikepacking, scouting or mountain climbing.

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Black-and-white

Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey.

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Bob Hastings

Robert Francis Hastings (April 18, 1925 – June 30, 2014) was an American actor.

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Bobby Wright

John Robert "Bobby" Wright (born March 30, 1942) is an American country music singer.

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Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun

--> The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.

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Broadside (TV series)

Broadside is an American sitcom that aired on ABC during the 1964–1965 TV season. McHale's Navy and Broadside (TV series) are American Broadcasting Company sitcoms, black-and-white American television shows, military comedy television series, television series by Universal Television and world War II television comedy series.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brunei Bay

Brunei Bay (Teluk Brunei) is on the northwestern coast of Borneo island, in Brunei and Malaysia.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.

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Captain (United States O-6)

In the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps), captain is the senior-most commissioned officer rank below that of flag officer (i.e., admirals).

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Carl Ballantine

Carl Ballantine (September 27, 1917 – November 3, 2009) was an American magician, comedian and actor.

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.

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Catchphrase

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.

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Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Chagrin Falls is a village in eastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Chester W. Nimitz

Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy.

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Chief petty officer

A chief petty officer (CPO) is a senior non-commissioned officer in many navies and coast guards, usually above petty officer.

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Cindy Robbins

Cynthia Chenault is an American television actress and producer/writer active from the mid-1950s to the present.

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Cinema Retro

Cinema Retro is an English magazine devoted to "celebrating films of the 1960s & 1970s".

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Claudine Longet

Claudine Georgette Longet (born 29 January 1942) is a Franco-American singer, actress, dancer, and recording artist popular during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Clay Tanner

Clay Tanner (February 3, 1931, in Clay City, Indiana, USA as Allen Honaker – December 22, 2002, in Hernando, Florida, USA) was an American actor.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Cliff Norton

Clifford Charles Norton (born Clifford Charles Nathan;"United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KQ4-SYGY: 10 February 2023), Clifford Charles Nathan,. March 21, 1918 – January 25, 2003) was an American character actor and radio announcer who appeared in various movies and television series over a career spanning four decades.

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Colloquialism

Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.

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Combat stress reaction

Combat stress reaction (CSR) is acute behavioral disorganization as a direct result of the trauma of war.

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Comedic device

Comedic device refers to a kind of device used to make a statement more humorous.

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Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship.

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Cyril J. Mockridge

Cyril John Mockridge (August 6, 1896 – January 18, 1979) was an English film and television composer.

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Dell Comics

Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines.

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Depth charge

A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.

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Destination Gobi

Destination Gobi is a 1953 American Technicolor World War II film released by 20th Century-Fox.

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Destroyer escort

Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th-century classification for a warship designed with the endurance necessary to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships.

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Dick Sargent

Richard Stanford Cox (April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994), known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor.

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Dick Wilson

Dick Wilson (July 30, 1916 – November 18, 2007) was an American actor who was best known as grocery store manager Mr. George Whipple in more than 500 Charmin bathroom tissue television commercials (1965–89, 1999–2000).

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Don Knotts

Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924February 24, 2006) was an American actor and comedian.

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Drag (entertainment)

Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes.

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Dreger Harbour

Dreger Harbour is a harbour south of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea.

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Dutch New Guinea

Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962.

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Ebbets Field

Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York.

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Edson Stroll

Edson Stroll (January 6, 1929 – July 18, 2011) was an American actor who appeared in over 20 film and television programs beginning in 1958.

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Edward Andrews

Edward Bryan Andrews Jr. (October 9, 1914 – March 8, 1985) was an American stage, film and television actor.

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Edward Montagne

Edward J. Montagne Jr. (May 20, 1912 – December 15, 2003) was an American television series producer and film director.

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Emergency!

Emergency! is an American action-adventure medical drama television series jointly produced by Mark VII Limited and Universal Television. McHale's Navy and Emergency! are television series by Universal Television.

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Engineman

Engineman (abbreviated as EN) is a United States Navy occupational rating.

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Ensign (rank)

Ensign (Late Middle English, from Old French enseigne, from Latin insignia (plural)) is a junior rank of a commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy.

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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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European theatre of World War II

The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II.

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Feature film

A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.

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Filming location

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constructed on a movie studio backlot or soundstage.

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Fleer

The Fleer Corporation, founded by Frank H. Fleer in 1885, was the first company to successfully manufacture bubble gum; it remained a family-owned enterprise until 1989.

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Frank Comstock

Frank G. Comstock (September 20, 1922 – May 21, 2013) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and trombonist.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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Front projection effect

A front projection effect is an in-camera visual effects process in film production for combining foreground performance with pre-filmed background footage.

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Gary Vinson

Robert Gary Vinson (October 22, 1936 – October 15, 1984) was an American actor who appeared in significant roles in three television series of the 1960s: The Roaring 20s, McHale's Navy, and Pistols 'n' Petticoats.

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Gavin MacLeod

Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See; February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021) was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat.

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George Furth

George Furth (born George Schweinfurth; December 14, 1932 – August 11, 2008) was an American librettist, playwright, and actor.

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George Kennedy

George Harris Kennedy Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 film and television productions.

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Gunner's mate

The United States Navy and United States Coast Guard occupational rating of gunner's mate (GM) is a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) to enlisted sailors who either satisfactorily complete initial Gunner's Mate "A" school training, or who "strike" for the rating by showing competence in the field of ordnance.

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Harry von Zell

Harry Rudolph von Zell (July 11, 1906 – November 21, 1981) was an American announcer of radio programs, and an actor in films and television shows.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Hawthorne, California

Hawthorne is a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.

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Heavy cruiser

A heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203 mm (8 inches) in calibre, whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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Henry Beckman

Henry Beckman (26 November 1921 – 17 June 2008) was a Canadian stage, film and television actor.

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Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood.

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Herbert Lytton

Herbert Lytton Cress (December 9, 1897 – June 26, 1981) was an American film and television actor.

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Hirohito

Hirohito (29 April 19017 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot.

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Hughes H-4 Hercules

The Hughes H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company.

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Hulu

Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Human cannibalism

Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

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Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Jack Elliott (composer)

Irwin Elliott Zucker (August 6, 1927 – August 18, 2001) was an American television and film composer, conductor, music arranger, television producer, and co-founder of the New American Orchestra, later renamed the American Jazz Philharmonic.

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Jane Dulo

Jane Dulo (born Bernice Dewlow;"United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3W2-2HZ: Thu Aug 03 06:29:35 UTC 2023), Entry for Lawrence Dewlow and Nettie Dewlow, 1930. See also.

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Japanese honorifics

The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called, which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation.

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Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.

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Jay Novello

Jay Novello (born Michael Romano, August 22, 1904 – September 2, 1982) was an American radio, film, and television character actor.

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Jean Hale

Jean Hale (born Carol Jane Hale; December 27, 1938 – August 3, 2021) was an American actress.

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Jean Willes

Jean Donahue (born Jean Willes; April 15, 1923 – January 3, 1989) was an American film and television actress.

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Jennings Lang

Jennings Lang (May 28, 1915, New York City – May 29, 1996, Palm Desert, California) was an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Jerry Colonna (entertainer)

Gerardo Luigi Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 21, 1986), better known as Jerry Colonna, was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist who played the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Jesse Pearson (actor)

Jesse Pearson (born Bobby Wayne Pearson; August 18, 1930December 5, 1979) was an American actor, singer, director, and writer.

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Joan Staley

Joan Staley (born Joan Lynette McConchie; May 20, 1940 – November 24, 2019) was an American actress and model.

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Joe Flynn (American actor)

Joseph Anthony Flynn III (November 8, 1924 – July 19, 1974) was an American actor.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Joyce Jameson

Joyce Jameson (born Joyce Beverly Kingsley; September 26, 1927 – January 16, 1987) was an American actress, known for many television roles, including recurring guest appearances as Skippy, one of the "fun girls" in the 1960s television series The Andy Griffith Show as well as "the Blonde" in the Academy Award-winning The Apartment (1960).

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Kathleen Nolan

Kathleen Nolan (born Joycelyn Schrum; September 27, 1933) is an American actress and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.

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Knot (unit)

The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn.

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Laugh track

A laugh track (or laughter track) is an audio recording consisting of laughter (and other audience reactions) usually used as a separate soundtrack for comedy productions.

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Lūʻau

A lūʻau (lūʻau, also anglicized as "luau") is a traditional Hawaiian party or feast that is usually accompanied by entertainment.

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Lend-Lease

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.

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Letting the cat out of the bag

Letting the cat out of the bag (also...box) is a colloquialism meaning to reveal facts previously hidden.

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Lieutenant

A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.

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Lieutenant commander

Lieutenant Commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr., LCDR, or LCdr) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies.

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Lisa Seagram

Lisa Seagram (born Ruth Browser; July 7, 1936 – February 1, 2019) was an American actress.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Lubang Island

Lubang Island is the largest among the seven islands in the Lubang Group of Islands, an archipelago situated to the northwest of the northern tip of the island of Mindoro in the Philippines.

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M4 autocannon

The 37 mm Automatic Gun, M4, known as the T9 during development, was a 37 mm (1.46 in) recoil-operated autocannon designed by Browning Arms Company and entered service in 1942.

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Machinist's mate

Machinist's mate (or MM) is a rating in the United States Navy's engineering community.

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Madman Entertainment

Madman Entertainment Pty.

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Mako (actor)

was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ).

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Marlo Thomas

Margaret Julia Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, producer, author, and social activist.

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Marvin Kaplan

Marvin Wilbur Kaplan (January 24, 1927 – August 25, 2016) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who was best known as Henry Beesmeyer in Alice (1978–1985).

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Maura McGiveney

Mary Alish "Maura" McGiveney (February 28, 1939 – November 10, 1990) was an English-American film and television actress during the 1960s and 1970s.

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McHale's Navy (1964 film)

McHale's Navy is a 1964 American technicolor comedy film based on the 1962–1966 black and white television sitcom McHale's Navy starring Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn, which had in turn originated with a one-hour anthology drama starring Borgnine entitled Seven Against the Sea.

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McHale's Navy (1997 film)

McHale's Navy is a 1997 American military comedy film directed by Bryan Spicer, and starring Tom Arnold, David Alan Grier, Dean Stockwell, Debra Messing and Tim Curry.

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McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force is a 1965 film based upon the television 1962–1966 sitcom McHale's Navy.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Michael Burns (actor)

Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.

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Mindoro

Mindoro is the seventh largest and eighth-most populous island in the Philippines.

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Mios Woendi

Mios Woendi island is an island in the Schouten Islands of Papua province, eastern Indonesia.

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Mister Roberts (1955 film)

Mister Roberts is a 1955 American comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy featuring an all-star cast including Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts, James Cagney as Captain Morton, William Powell (in his final film appearance) as Doc, and Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver.

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Moonshine

Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally.

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Motor torpedo boat

A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century.

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Naval aviator (United States)

A naval aviator is a commissioned officer or warrant officer qualified as a crewed aircraft pilot in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps.

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Nazi salute

The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute, or the Sieg Heil salute, is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Nisei

is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).

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Nouméa

Nouméa is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest francophone city in Oceania.

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One-shot film

A one-shot film (also one-take film, single-take film, continuous shot feature film) is a full-length movie filmed in one long take by a single camera, or manufactured to give the impression it was.

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Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat is a 1959 American World War II submarine comedy film in Eastmancolor from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.

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Oy vey

Oy vey (אױ װײ) is a Yiddish phrase expressing dismay or exasperation.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York City with a branch office in Los Angeles.

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Pat Harrington Jr.

Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016) was an American Emmy Award–winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984).

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Patrol torpedo boat PT-109

PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II.

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Peggy Mondo

Peggy Mondo (August 12, 1927 – February 19, 1991) was an American actress known for playing roles of overweight characters.

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Periscope

A periscope is an instrument for observation over, around or through an object, obstacle or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer's current position.

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Petty officer first class

Petty officer first class (PO1) is a rank found in some navies and maritime organizations.

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Petty officer second class

Petty officer second class (PO2) is a rank found in some navies and maritime organizations.

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Philip Ober

Philip Nott Ober (March 23, 1902 – September 13, 1982) was an American screen and stage actor who later retired from performing to be a foreign service diplomat.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Phrase

In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit.

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Plot twist

A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.

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Polynesians

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Prisoner-of-war camp

A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war.

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PT boat

A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II.

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Quartermaster

Quartermaster is a military term, the meaning of which depends on the country and service.

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Radioman

Radioman (RM) was a rating for United States Navy and United States Coast Guard enlisted personnel, specializing in communications technology.

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Raquel Welch

Jo Raquel Welch (September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.

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Richard Widmark

Richard Weedt Widmark (December 26, 1914March 24, 2008) was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer.

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Robert J. Donovan

Robert John Donovan (August 21, 1912 – August 8, 2003) was a Washington correspondent, author and presidential historian.

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Ron Foster (actor)

Ronald R. Foster (February 19, 1930 – February 26, 2015) was an American actor.

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Roy Roberts

Roy Roberts (born Roy Barnes Jones; March 19, 1906 – May 28, 1975) was an American character actor.

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Running gag

A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling.

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Safe house

A safe house (also spelled safehouse) is a dwelling place or building whose unassuming appearance makes it an inconspicuous location where one can hide out, take shelter, or conduct clandestine activities.

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San Pedro Bay (Philippines)

San Pedro Bay is a bay in the Philippines, at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Santa Bárbara, meaning) is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.

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Seaman (rank)

Seaman is a military rank used in many navies around the world.

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Sequel

A sequel is a work of literature, film, theater, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Sergeant major

Sergeant major is a senior non-commissioned rank or appointment in many militaries around the world.

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Service number (United States Navy)

United States Navy service numbers were created in 1920, one year after the close of the First World War.

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Sheila Kuehl

Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941) is an American politician and retired actress, and served as the member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 3rd District and as board chair and chair pro tem.

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Shout! Studios

Shout! Factory, LLC, doing business as Shout! Studios (formerly doing business as its current legal name as Shout! Factory) is an American home video and music distributor founded in 2002 as Retropolis Entertainment.

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Simon Scott (actor)

Simon Scott (September 21, 1920 – December 11, 1991) was an American character actor from Monterey Park, California.

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Single-camera setup

In filmmaking and video production, the single-camera setup or single-camera mode of production (also known as portable single crew, portable single camera or single-cam) is a method in which all of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera.

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Sitcom

A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.

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Southern Italy

Southern Italy (Sud Italia,, or Italia meridionale,; 'o Sudde; Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione or Mezzogiorno (Miezojuorno; Menzujornu), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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A spin-off or spinoff is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work.

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Stanley Adams (actor)

Stanley Adams (born Stanley Abramowitz; April 7, 1915 – April 27, 1977) was an American actor and screenwriter.

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Steve Franken

Stephen Robert Franken (May 27, 1932 – August 24, 2012)Slotnik, Daniel E. (August 31, 2012).

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Still

A still is an apparatus used to distill liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor.

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Sue Ane Langdon

Sue Ane Langdon is an American actress.

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Susan Silo

Susan Silo (born July 27, 1942) is an American actress who is known for her work in voice-over roles.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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Ted Knight

Ted Knight (born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka; December 7, 1923August 26, 1986) was an American actor known for playing the comedic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack.

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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)

The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American survival drama film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by English author Elleston Trevor.

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The Love Boat

The Love Boat is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977 to May 24, 1986. McHale's Navy and the Love Boat are American Broadcasting Company sitcoms.

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also known simply as Mary Tyler Moore) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore.

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The Navy Lark

The Navy Lark is a radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge (a play on HMS ''Troubridge'', a Royal Navy destroyer) based in HMNB Portsmouth.

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The Phil Silvers Show

The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on the CBS Television Network from 1955 to 1959. McHale's Navy and the Phil Silvers Show are black-and-white American television shows and military comedy television series.

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The Sand Pebbles (film)

The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.

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Tim Conway

Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director.

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Tom Arnold (actor)

Thomas Duane Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.

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Torpedoman's mate

Torpedoman's Mate (abbreviated as TM) is a United States Navy occupational rating.

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Tramp trade

A boat or ship engaged in the tramp trade is one which does not have a fixed schedule, itinerary nor published ports of call, and trades on the spot market as opposed to freight liners.

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Transogram

Transogram was an American producer of toys, games and other leisure products from the early 20th century to 1971.

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U-boat

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy (USNA, Navy, or Annapolis) is a federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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United States Naval Special Warfare Command

The United States Naval Special Warfare Command (USNSWC), also known as NAVSPECWARCOM and WARCOM, is the naval component of United States Special Operations Command, the unified command that oversees and conducts the nation's special operations and missions.

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United States Navy Reserve

The United States Navy Reserve (USNR), known as the United States Naval Reserve from 1915 to 2005, is the Reserve Component (RC) of the United States Navy.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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References

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