Word: battleships
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...wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...
...electrocuted while working near high voltage wires in the darkness. Also in the darkness the cruiser Milwaukee had collided with the destroyer Simpson, smashing in the latter's bow and sending her to drydock. And while the fighting was fiercest, Captain William Woods Smyth, commanding the battleship Tennessee, had died of a sinus infection on the hospital ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported...
...bearded men have wings, but Admiral Reeves wears above his bright garden of decorations the insignia of a naval aviation observer. During the War, when he was convoying on the battleship Maine (for which he got the Navy Cross), Admiral Reeves first interested himself in the air arm. In 1919 he was sent to Rome as naval attache. There he went up in one of the dirigibles General Nobile designed for the Italian Government. Back home he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, went to Pensacola to learn flying. As a captain he won his wings...
...Apted, armed like a battleship, go the honors of the chase. First, he calmly surveyed the scene from the haven of a first floor window. Then with set and courageous mien he stalked his prey over the parapet and emptied the contents of his two black six shooters into the quivering flesh. Satisfied by the sound of the six shots which evidently startied the skunk into a corpse, Apted, still calm, ordered his minions to inter the deceased in the midst of the stench-stained scene of carnage. It was a lonely service for few of the once optimistic...
...handled by people with some common sense. The Akron disaster was a classic example of thick-headedness and incompetency. There is only one capable airship commander in this country, and that is Rosendahl. He's a good man, but they've got him out at sea on board a battleship, while a lot of inexperienced pups fool around with the Macon...