Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nagano, on the other hand, knows the U.S. as well as any Japanese naval officer. He was a language officer in the U.S. in 1913 and studied law at Harvard for seven months. He even took courses at the War College. In 1928 he commanded a Japanese training squadron which...
With one Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League victory over Penn under its tights, the Crimson swimming team travels to New York tonight to face Columbia. Continuing on its weekend jaunt, it pulls into Annapolis tomorrow for a meet with the Naval Academy.
So wrote Annapolis-trained, 34-year-old Lieut. Commander John Austin Collett, naval aviator, in the current issue of the United States Naval Proceedings. In the traditionally closemouthed Navy a young officer may speak his piece if it is technically sound.
Bullet Lou Kirn (he got his nickname and his cagey heart at Annapolis, playing football) was all Navy: a bear for work, a hater but an understander of red tape, not a liberty hound, never so tired he could not jack his tired men. Bob Milner, the squadron's...
"The Professor." Lesley McNair wanted to be a naval officer. Back home in Minnesota he had an alternate appointment to Annapolis, but he tired of waiting and got into West Point by competitive examination. His West Point colleagues remember him only as the sort of mathematical shark that makes promising...