Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is soft-spoken Burt Klakring, the man who watched a horse race on the Japanese seacoast through his periscope. He is also known in the Navy as an expert pianist, was described in the Lucky Bag the year he was graduated from Annapolis as "super-sentimental." On a single...
Hanson W. Baldwin, most temperate of military commentators and an Annapolis graduate himself, let go a full salvo at the Navy. It hit where it hurt: smack on the Navy's big E (for efficiency).
> Attendance at West Point is a useful, but not necessary, requirement for promotion to star rank. Of the 971 general officers appointed from Regular Army Promotion List Branches (excluding retired officers on active duty) in this war, 437 (about 45%) are graduates of the Military Academy. Fifteen present-day generals...
Lt. Pike, whose permanent home address is listed as Concord, North Carolina, has been attached to two naval fight activities in the South since his graduation from Annapolis in 1935. First of the series of administrative assignments was with the Aviation Cadet Regiment at Pensacola, Florida, the navy's oldest...
Discipline is Annapolis-strict: cadets keep their own quarters as spick as at the Academy. On their weekly "town liberty" they may not smoke on the street, or drink a beer at Harry's, or ride or sit in any vehicle except a bicycle. Lounging up & down Franklin Street...