Crossword-Solution: WWII 4 letters, 112 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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"Band of Brothers" conflict, briefly 1 answer
"Captain America: The First Avenger" backdrop, briefly 1 answer
"Hacksaw Ridge" conflict, for short 1 answer
"Hogan's Heroes" setting, briefly 1 answer
"Jojo Rabbit" setting, for short 1 answer
"Jojo Rabbit" setting: Abbr. 1 answer
"Saving Private Ryan" setting: Abbr. 1 answer
"Slaughterhouse-Five" setting, in brief 1 answer
"The Big One," briefly 1 answer
"The Big One," to vets 1 answer
"The Enemy Below" setting, briefly 1 answer
"The Greatest Generation" subj. 1 answer
"The Longest Day" setting: Abbr. 1 answer
"Victory at Sea" subj. 1 answer
'40s conflict 1 answer
1939-45 conflict (abbr.) 1 answer
1939-45 event, briefly 1 answer
1939-45 period, briefly 1 answer
1940's conflict, for short 1 answer
20th-c. upheaval 1 answer
20th-cen. calamity 1 answer
Allies vs. Axis 1 answer
Allies vs. Axis: Abbr. 1 answer
Axis and Allies conflict 1 answer
Axis vs. Allies 1 answer
Axis vs. Allies conflict 1 answer
Axis vs. Allies conflict, briefly 1 answer
Axis-vs.-Allies conflict 1 answer
Axis-vs.-Allies event 1 answer
Axis/Allies conflict: Abbr. 1 answer
Axis/Allies event, briefly 1 answer
Band of Brothers event (abbr.) 1 answer
Battle Cry subj. 1 answer
Battle of the Bulge conflict, briefly 1 answer
Big conflict, briefly 1 answer
Chapter in 20th-century hist. 1 answer
Conflict F.D.R. didn't see the end of 1 answer
Global conflict from 1939 to 1945, for short 1 answer
Conflict during which the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of nisei soldiers, served 1 answer
Conflict in FDR's presidency 1 answer
Conflict that ended in 1945, briefly 1 answer
Conflict with the European Theater of Operations, for short 1 answer
D-Day conflict 1 answer
D-Day milieu 1 answer
D-Day was its turning point 1 answer
D-Day's conflict 1 answer
D-Day's conflict, briefly 1 answer
DDE focus 1 answer
Depression follower, for short 1 answer
E.T.O. period 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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This wording seems to establish that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense --- and Hopper herself reports that the term `bug' was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
This term is one of the oldest in the jargon and no one is sure of its etymology, but it is suggestive that there is a Cruft Hall at Harvard University which is part of the old physics building; it's said to have been the physics department's radar lab during WWII.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Abundant mineral resources and hydropower have formed the basis of industrial development since WWII.
The 1993 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense -- and Hopper herself reports that the term `bug' was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
When `foo' is used in connection with `bar' it has generally traced to the WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR (`Fucked Up Beyond All Repair'), later modified to foobar.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002

Quotes with WWII (3)

We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so few died. (Our side meaning the lantern-jawed John Wayne Greatest Generation constantly canonized soldiers who strode in late to the graveyard that was Europe. Compared to Jewish, Russian, Roma, and other casualties, our losses were minimal.) We felt so strong. In some ways I th…
Catherynne M. Valente
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ... though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]
Winston S. Churchill The Gathering Storm
A third-grader when WWII started, I was also waging my own "war effort." It was deeply magical thinking — I really thought what I did or didn't do could save lives, win battles, bring my dad and uncles home safe. And conversely, that if I screwed up, they were all in greater danger.
Ann Medlock
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 100 times in crossword archives (1959–2025).