Word: adger
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around the Los Angeles. Undoubtedly Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett would be on board the dirigible, would look down upon the 40-mile ribbon, would say: "Ah What a Navy!"† echoing the quarter-deck thought of Admiral Samuel S. Robison who, this year, commands the Navy...