Word: cowdrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rear Admiral Roy T. Cowdrey, who commands naval shipyards...
York area, began an audacious piece of improvisation. While the Wasp was still far at sea, he sent hull-repair experts racing out on a destroyer to intercept her; they surveyed the damaged bow and radioed their findings. In New York, Admiral Cowdrey ordered a matching bow section removed from the Wasp's sister ship, the Hornet-which was being modernized at Brooklyn-and floated to Bayonne, N.J. on a barge. The new bow was fitted into place after the battered Wasp was drydocked...