Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navymen blinked when Admiral Land retired from the Navy (after 35 years' service) when he was only 58. For this was the same Jerry Land who won the athletic sword at Annapolis in 1900 (for football, baseball, crew, track, minor sports) while he was finishing sixth in his class...
White-haired, square-prowed Rear Admiral Chester William Nimitz, sitting with the House Naval Affairs Committee few weeks ago, took a look at the naval horizon through a seaman's spyglass. "Probably many of the Admirals of the future," said the Navy's Chief of the Bureau of...
But Admiral Nimitz probably had the laugh on his listeners. The Naval Academy at Annapolis will never be able to supply the officer demand of the two-ocean Navy. To man the U. S. fleets of 1946-47, the Navy will need 36,000 officers, 15,000 more to man...
This week, as the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill increasing the Navy's authorized man power to 300,000, the Navy's new officer-training program was well under way. For an output of 6,720 airmen by 1942 it had training stations at...
Approximately 50 men will go on the tour, which includes concerts in Town Hall, New York, on Sunday, and performances every day next week beginning with one in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The other concerts will be at Greensboro, North Carolina, Duke University, Farmville State Teachers College, Virginia, and St. John's...