Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The pea-green freshman, hitherto the lowest form of campus life, is wearing a hero's helmet this fall. Without him there would be little or no college football -except at West Point and Annapolis.
The Big Guns. Aloof from the yearling hurly-burly were the footballers of West Point and Annapolis. Army and Navy were loaded for bear, had almost stopped worrying about Notre Dame.
Killed in Action. Lieut. Commander Manning Marius Kimmel, 31, Annapolis-trained oldest son of Pearl Harbor's Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel (awaiting court-martial), winner of the Silver Star for "sinking of a significant amount of Japanese shipping"; aboard his command, the Robalo, 28th U.S. submarine lost during the...
However, this was not the occasion of excitement. The Captain's eyes were riveted on the flight deck from which he had launched 45 strikes in a period of a few months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry...
To command the new army "Ike" Eisenhower chose an airman; bright-eyed, 54-year-old, rakish Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, who had bossed the Ninth U.S. (Tactical) Air Force in its scourging campaign in France in support of Allied ground troops. Annapolis-trained Lewis Brereton had seen more of...