Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Bosses. Overall commander of the First Allied Airborne Army is a colorful, hell-for-leather airman, Annapolis-trained Lieut. General Lewis H. ("Louie") Brereton. In Brereton's command setup, the role of deputy is filled by tall, bluff, ruddy Major General Richard N. Gale, who also doubles as...
He lays his career in shipbuilding to a fluke. At 14, a cousin suggested that they take the entrance examinations for Annapolis. Young Ferguson, who had given no thought to the Navy until then, agreed. A week later, he passed and was appointed.
Commander Frederick W. Hesser, SC, USN, Executive Officer of the Supply School, is being sent to San Francisco to the staff of Admiral Ingersoll, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier. Graduated from Annapolis in 1927, he came here from the U.S.S. Arkansas in September, 1942.
Annapolis and West Point, as everybody knows, are crawling with athletes. But there is a difference in their mental attitude: Navy has a sense of guilt about its manpower bulge; Army accepts its blessings with self-confident aggressiveness. Last week, on seven fronts, Army cashed in on its psychological edge...
The hottest front was Annapolis' Dahlgren Hall, where West Point's once-beaten basketball team (upset by Pennsylvania) had it out with once-beaten Navy (who lost only to Bainbridge Naval Training Station). Both teams suffered first-half jitters; both succeeded with the same basic tactics-keep the...