Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready for a shower, ran up the hatchway and into the flame. The ensign and I pulled him down." But the .sailor was fatally burned...
...first stop was a glass enclosed, five-foot model of the U.S.S. South Dakota, soon to be shipped to the Smithsonian Institute. On this particular model, however, the Ensign Jack is upside down. None of the officers noticed this miniature distress signal until the postman, an ex-enlisted man, mentioned...
Married. Mildred ("Mimi") Clark, 20, Wellesley-educated daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark; and Ensign Thomas Richard Gronlund, 23, Navy air cadet; in a formal wedding attended by 565 guests, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Associate Justice Hugo Black. General of the Army Omar Bradley; in Washington...
...Navy wings and commission in October 1941, and was shipped to Pearl Harbor. His skipper made him officer of the day for Sunday, Dec. 7, with the remark that "nothing happens here on Sunday." The something that happened that Sunday-the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-allowed Ensign Bridgeman to distinguish himself in the only possible way that day by not getting wounded...
...Dear Franklin . . ." After three months of brooding and flying a hospital bed, Ensign Bridgeman wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, beginning "Dear Franklin . . ." and demanded transfer to an active job. He told his secret to an admiral's wife who did welfare work in the hospital. She turned white and ran to the commanding admiral of the San Francisco Naval District. In old-line Navy custom, such conduct by an ensign was almost as shocking as mutiny...