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...Allen Essex Junction...
Obsession with secrecy was equally futile. Commanders on the carrier Essex won permission to let their pilots overfly the beach only after the aircraft insignia were obliterated with gray paint. But only the U.S. Navy flew the A-4D jet fighter, whose distinctive silhouette was instantly recognizable. Similarly, a crew was sent over the side of the destroyer U.S.S. Eaton to paint out the ship's name. Yet the vessel's outline could be clearly identified as that of a U.S. warship; at binocular range, even the raised lettering could be read...
...keep any crew members from knowing that the Essex was heading toward Cuba to watch over the invasion, no detailed maps of the island were available. The carrier's frustrated flyers picked out towns and roads by the lines on a tattered Esso road map. Forbidden to fire, they could only watch helplessly as Castro's jets strafed the invaders and gunned down the ponderous B-26 bombers flown by American and Cuban-exile pilots...
From Cambridge, follow the same route to Crane Beach. At route 133, though, follow signs to Essex and Newburyport out of Ipswich, and then follow signs for Plum Island...
...took a job as a research chemist with British Xylonite plastics in Essex and immediately began turning up at local Conservative Party affairs. Impressed Tory officials proposed her as their candidate for Dartford, then a safe Labor seat in Kent. Being chosen as a sacrificial lamb is the classic way to begin a career in British politics, and Margaret eagerly accepted. In the 1950 election Margaret, then 24, was the youngest woman running for Parliament. She lost, but Kingsley Wood, then leader of the Tories on the Dartford Council, recalls that "we all knew she was something different. She worked...