Word: barker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Barker who has been professor of Naval Science and Tactics for a total of four years at Harvard, said yesterday in a farewell interview, "This has been a most satisfactory tour of duty. I have experienced wonderful cooperation from the University for the establishment and operation of the several Naval Training Schools in this activity, which have been built up in the last two years form a few hundred officer-candidates to nearly 5000 commissioned officers and officer-candidates...
...feature appearing several months ago in the Harvard Scuttlebutt, Captain Barker was described as, "a Navy man's Navy man." His modest and direct manner would hardly indicate that he is the holder of the Navy Cross, which he earned when in the position of Executive and Navigation officer of the destroyer "Nicholson," the first destroyer to be sent by the United States to the Allied Naval forces...
While operating out of Queenstown, protecting conveys and individual ships, with the aid of the destroyer "Fanning," Captain Barker's ship captured the German submarine U-58. The two ships then drove an attacking sub from the "J. L. Luckenbach...
...Captain Barker was the Massachusetts appointee to the Naval Academy in 1903. He graduated in 1907 and was on the battleship "Nebraska" and the armored cruiser "South Dakota" during the next few years, when he saw Central and South America, the South Seas, and Asiatic Station...
From 1913 to 1915 Captain Barker...