Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But Naha field, best air base on Okinawa, had been captured by the 4th Marines under husky, soft-voiced Colonel Alan Shapley, former Annapolis football star.
"Hell on the Hudson." West Point rules and traditions struck Plebe Robert Woods like a tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck...
Woody swiftly learned that an order from a superior carried "the impact of a rifle shot" - and that everyone is superior to a plebe except "the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in...
In autumn, Woody more than satisfied the athletics requirement by playing varsity football (thus becoming the only man ever to play for both Annapolis and West Point). In winter he went out for indoor track and in spring for outdoor track and baseball, meanwhile learning to box, fence, wrestle. On...
Fifty-two years in the Navy shaped the thinking of Bill Leahy, born on a farm near Hampton, Iowa. As a midshipman at Annapolis he sailed aboard the leaky, century-old frigate Constellation. As an ensign, he was a member of the crew that took the Oregon racing around the...