Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been poor. From a strictly military viewpoint, the chiefs would like to 1) install a U.S. commander, 2) support him with U.S. air power and a naval blockade of the China coast, 3) give him money and men to develop independent native armies-much as General James Van Fleet developed them in Greece and the Republic of Korea...
...course best outlined by Van Fleet himself in the February Readers' Digest. "The lesson for us," he wrote, "is that free Asia may easily be saved if we provide our worthy allies with [U.S.-run military training] schools. They can be built for barely $5,000,000 each and, with the aid of less than two dozen American instructors . . . give courses lasting from four to 24 weeks to 10,000 eager pupils...
...shipbuilder; in Thomasville, Ga. During the Spanish-American War, Annapolisman Powell commanded the little launch which, under heavy fire, vainly searched for survivors of the-collier Merrimac, scuttled in the entrance to Santiago Harbor by Lieut. Richmond Pearson Hobson in an effort to bottle up Admiral Cervera's fleet...
...grisly central figure of The Man Who Never Was, one of the most astonishing stories to come out of World War II. Ordinarily, the Martin story might induce more raised eyebrows than belief. But documented as it is, written by Britain's present Judge Advocate of the Fleet, Ewen Montagu, and coming with the imprimatur of Churchill's wartime Chief of Staff Lord Ismay, it can be enjoyed as one of the most bizarre stories of deception in recent military history...
...Ordnance during World War II, later led a naval bombardment group in the Pacific. In 1946, commanding Joint Task Force One (230 ships; 41,000 men; 1,000 scientists and technicians), Admiral Blandy smoothly directed the first postwar A-bomb tests at Bikini. Retiring as head of the Atlantic Fleet in 1950, he was recalled to active duty last October, when death came was busy evaluating the Navy's Reserve program...