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=== World War II === Quine arranged for [[Alfred Tarski|Tarski]] to be invited to the September 1939 [[Unity of Science]] Congress in Cambridge, for which the Jewish Tarski sailed on the last ship to leave [[Gdaลsk|Danzig]] before [[Invasion of Poland|Nazi Germany invaded Poland]] and triggered [[World War II]]. Tarski survived the war and worked another 44 years in the US. During the war, Quine lectured on logic in [[Brazil]], in Portuguese, and served in the [[United States Navy]] in a [[military intelligence]] role, deciphering messages from German submarines, and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.<ref name="mactutor" /> Quine could lecture in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish as well as his native English.
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