Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after he seized power, poverty-stricken, landlord-ridden peons revolted. Tattered peasant armies marched on the capital. The theosophist met them with shot & shell, screaming "Communists! Bolsheviks!" The U.S. Government believed him, sent the U.S. cruiser Rochester up from Panama, loaded with marines. Two Canadian destroyers and a British cruiser also appeared. When they reached El Salvador, the theosophist reported that the situation was well in hand; he had "liquidated 4,800 Bolsheviks." The visiting forces did not interfere. Before Mexico's intervention halted the blood bath, about 15,000 peons had been slaughtered...
There was plenty of dirty work to do. On Nov. 12-13, when a U.S. force sank a Jap battleship, five cruisers, five destroyers and eight transports, the O'Bannon scored hits on a battleship and a cruiser which far outweighed and outranged her. For six months of almost continuous naval warfare she was in the thick of the campaign which did not end until Guadalcanal was secured...
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 1929 to 1932, Captain Barker was aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth. Following this, he spent two years as Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser, "Portland." In 1934 he was made professor of Naval Science and Tactics here, but at the end of three years he went back to sea in command of the U. S. S. "Houston." This probably was Captain Barker's favorite command, and he is quoted as having said sadly but proudly of the "Houston," "she went down fighting...
...Captain's son, Lt. Jonathan A. Barker, USN, graduated from the Naval Academy in December, 1941. His first assignment was the heavy cruiser "Vincennes," which was sunk in the Guadalcanal invasion. He is now on another heavy cruiser in the Central Pacific...