Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was only half of a full day, as the President lazed in the Florida sun. He is a man who can take his fishing or leave it alone; but Florida boosters would have considered themselves betrayed if he did no fishing. Flanked by his chief of staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (who likes to fish), he set out in a crash boat to wet a line. His catch: a 5-lb. barracuda, a grouper and a mackerel...
...missed. Last month the Royal Navy destroyers Saumarez and Volage, cruising in the same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa. ... In other times we'd have had a British squadron off the coast of the nation involved, and by now a division or two ashore making sure that whoever was responsible was going to pay in more ways than...
Squeeze Play. Strategically, the fall of Antung was a greater blow to the Communists than Kalgan, where they had lost land communications between Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin. Across the 240-mile-wide neck of the Yellow Sea a great fleet of junks had plied, bringing captured Japanese arms to the Shantung Communists, ferrying Eighth Route Army soldiers to Manchuria. The Nationalist Victory pocketed the Shantung Reds between the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway and the sea; and in Manchuria, it strengthened the Government flank for the ultimate drive north on Harbin...
Getting tagged is a pleasure," said one fleet Funster as he eyed the girls' flying wedge approaching and set to hurl himself into the branches of the once tightly packed lines...
Navy Day Celebration (Sun. 12:30 p.m., ABC). Tin Can, a dramatization of the Battle of Leyte Gulf; at 7:30 p.m., Mutual airs an address by Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey...