Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night, was ready. Nine thousand men from Schofield Barracks were deployed in the underbrush. Anti-aircraft guns nosed up into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb the peace of the "Paradise of the Pacific," Oahu fell into hostile hands, and with it the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Imaginative newsmen reported that the Black attack by air had left...
Defending the U. S. in command of the Battle Force was Admiral Luke McNamee aboard his flagship California. His "Blue" fleet consisted of the battleships New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Colorado and West Virginia, nine 7,500-ton cruisers, 40 destroyers, 15 submarines, the aircraft carrier Langley and miscellaneous tender and supply ships. Lighter and swifter, the Black fleet was to try to cut through this heavy-hitting cordon of capital ships and ravage the coast. No troops were to be theoretically landed from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly...
...Navy men this 1933 maneuver is known as Fleet Problem No. 14. It is the invention of the officer who will umpire the week-long engagement-Admiral Richard Henry ("Reddy") Leigh, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet and highest ranking officer afloat. Last year before his top-notch promotion Admiral Leigh commanded the Battle Force when, in similar maneuvers, it was the "enemy" fleet trying to pierce the Scouting Force's defense of the same shoreline. This year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next...
...Reddy." Admiral Leigh is no naval specialist. Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, retired, who preceded him as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, knew much more about seagoing strategy. Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed...
Professionally outranking the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet is the Chief of Naval Operations at Washington. On March 1 Admiral William Veazie Pratt is automatically retired from that No. 1 Navy job. Ordinarily Admiral Leigh would hope to aspire to this departmental position, were it not for two facts: the appointment is for a four-year tour of duty; Admiral Leigh is due to be retired for age Sept. 1, 1934. Likely candidates for Chief of Naval Operations: Admiral McNamee who this week defends the U. S. from the Black "enemy"; Vice Admiral William H. Standley, commander...