Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval aviator. Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, the first of his race, was shot down and killed while flying from the carrier S.S. Leyte in Korea...
...flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign with peach-fuzz stubble on his chin indicated an enemy marshaling yard on the admiral's map. "We got a train here, sir, about ten or eleven cars." "Did they all burn?" the admiral asked. "No, sir," the ensign replied. "I think one group of five and another group...
...Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that Captain Queeg was not enough of a seaman to save the rusty, 1918-model Caine. When steady Lieut. Maryk, the executive officer, relieved the impotent captain under ticklish Article...
...cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs and LCVPs cautiously into the jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when Communist machine guns and automatic rifles opened up from both sides, Lecorche's tanned, half-naked young French sailors answered...
Chipping the Barrier. Although he found the old race barriers still in existence, Reporter Rowan also found that they are being chipped away. On Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto, between Washington and Charleston, where five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...