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“The 20th Maine men and others in the brigade now had to turn and follow Chamberlain, wallowing along this road for the third time. They had had little rest and no rations, and Chamberlain recalled that they were”
― John J. Pullen, The Twentieth Maine

“using “expressions that could be conjectured only by a veteran of the Old Testament dispensation.”
― John J. Pullen, The Twentieth Maine

“These precision tools drill, cut, press, and bore; they are the beating heart of the process, and without them there is nothing for assembly lines to assemble. For example, eighty-seven tools were required to build a single propeller shaft, and in 1940 virtually all such tools came from just two hundred companies, most in New England with fewer than one hundred employees.”
― Dan Hampton, Vanishing Act: The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid over Tokyo

“The Northern Pump Company hydraulic gear for our 5" fuze-setting shell hoists was found on the burn during some practice firings on the way out. No drawings available, of course. Local repair forces all stumped. Man being flown out from the states—Mr. W. Cody, of the N. P. Co.”
― David F. Winkler, Witness to Neptune's Inferno: The Pacific War Diary of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd M. Mustin, USS Atlanta

“When Warner saw Francis’s line give way, he knew the battle was lost. He lost his normally stoic equanimity and “poured out a torrent of execrations upon the flying troops.” But with his right flank and rear crumbling under pressure from Riedesel’s Germans and Acland’s grenadiers attacking his left with help from Lindsay’s light infantry detachment as they reached the ridge, Warner regained his composure and yelled for his men to “scatter and meet me in Manchester.”129”
― Bruce M. Venter, The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America

“experimented with rapid-fire weapons, known as Chambers guns, after their Philadelphia inventor.”
― Charles R. Morris, The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution