[Ads-l] antedating "black-shoe navy"

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OED: 1950

1944 _Pampa [Tex.] News_ (Aug. 23) 2 [Newspapers.com]: Back with the
Seabees and Marines and the dog-faces and the "black-shoe" Navy.

JL
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