Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Day after day, week after week, he sat in his cramped, cluttered office in New York and wrote about the Navy, the Army and the war. Occasionally he had a week or so at Army posts, or on a warship, living the life he knew when he was at Annapolis...
A graduate of Annapolis, Sweetland retired form the Navy in 1922 when the disarmament program was under way and followed a publishing career which included the publication of President Hoover's "Boyhood in Iowa" on the Argentine Press which he founded. Early this year he was commissioned in the Naval...
A multitude of forgotten incidents like these make the story of Sims lively reading during World War II. His son-in-law, Elting E. Morison, has written it in Admiral Sims and the Modern American Navy (Houghton, Mifflin; $5), published last week. For 30 years the great voice of public...
But Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial...
Remarking first on the immense expansion of the United States Navy in the past few months, Admiral Wilson told of the amazement expressed once by a French officer at the Navy's ability to absorb 400 graduates of Annapolis each year. "Think what he would say now," the Admiral remarked...