Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On a Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which...
The battles of the Coral Sea had been fought, the Lexington had been lost and Midway had been won at the cost of the York town when he told the war class of Annapolis midshipmen in June: "War is force-force to the utmost-force to make the enemy yield...
>At Annapolis, in a wartime version of the once glamorous Army-Navy game, an underdog Navy team routed the touted Army, 14-to-0. Shifted from Philadelphia's vast Municipal Stadium (capacity: 102,000) to little Thompson Field (capacity: 22,000), tickets were limited to people living within ten...
"Come out and see the show the Navy is putting on!" somebody yelled. Claterbos went downstairs, watched the smoke and heard the gunfire of Pearl Harbor for 15 minutes. Then he went up to finish his letter. What he had seen and heard reminded him of his son at Annapolis...
In June 1941, Thorndike brought Kimball into the firm because of his knowledge of manufacturing. A graduate of Annapolis, where he was a classmate of Admiral Leahy, Harry Kimball failed to stay in the Navy because he was one of the seasickest midshipmen ever enrolled. Instead he went to work...