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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...
...London last week the British Admiralty announced the loss of one of the crack warships of World War II, the 5,270-ton light cruiser Penelope. She was sunk with another cruiser and two destroyers off Anzio...
Recently returned from active duty in a cruiser on the Mediterranean, Lieutenant Frank F. Smart, Jr., Chaplains Corps, USNR, is now Chaplain to Navy personnel at Harvard...
...South Pacific as deputy commander went the man Towers succeeded, 62-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, who has commanded destroyer and cruiser divisions during his tours of sea duty. To succeed Towers: Rear Admiral Charles A. ("Baldy") Pownall, who bossed a carrier force in the Gilberts invasion...
...Nine converted cruiser carriers (Independence class), which are flattops built on cruiser hulls, somewhat smaller than the Essex class but fast and formidable...