Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve as bases, others (Bikini, Eniwetok) have served as sites for testing atomic bombs. The new High Commissioner sees his task as "giving the islanders a chance to develop." His headquarters: Honolulu, at least until completion of proposed new headquarters at Truk, southwest Pacific base of the wartime Japanese fleet...
...years of soldiering, James Alward Van Fleet has served his country well in France, Germany, Greece and Korea. But what may prove to be one of General Van Fleet's greatest services was performed on Capitol Hill two weeks ago: he told the Senate Armed Services Committee that throughout his 22 months as commander of the Eighth Army in Korea he and his U.N. troops had been plagued by "a serious shortage of ammunition" (TIME, March 16). Charges of an ammunition shortage had been made before and brushed off before. Van Fleet's reputation was too solid...
Last week, at the demand of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon's bosses, civilian and Army, paraded to Capitol Hill to give their answer to Van Fleet's charge. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, in the immemorial manner of civilian service chiefs, did his best to back up his uniformed Washington subordinates; he read a brief statement declaring that the ammunition situation in Korea was improving. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton ("Lightnin' Joe") Collins implied that Van Fleet, like most combat commanders, had an insatiable appetite for ammunition. The fact is, said Collins...
...Unsatisfactory." The Army had a second line of defense: perhaps the disagreement between Collins and Van Fleet could be explained by different definitions of "shortage." As the hearing went on, however, it became clear that the Army had a shortage of ammunition by anybody's definition. Van Fleet specified that the Eighth Army had not always had enough ammunition on the firing line. At times, he said, there was not enough to support counterbattery fire or to cope with Chinese "human sea" attacks. All the Pentagon witnesses conceded that in the past reserve stocks in Korea had fallen dangerously...
Four members of the Business squad have played together for months representing New Section F. Murphy, Karmater, Smith, and Bramhall. Their spotless record includes a Victory over the U.S.S. Worcester, which subsequently won the Atlantic Fleet Championship (Battleship and Cruiser Division). Former CRIMSON sports editor Peter B. Taub '31 played for the Worcester club...