Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalists could muster only 400,000 troops-including 90,000 on Quemoy, 25,000 on Matsu-and an air force of 400 jet fighters spearheaded by F-86 Sabre jet interceptors of Korean-war vintage. The U.S. had in the area the 100-ship, 300-or-so-plane Seventh Fleet, the Fifth Air Force in Japan, the Thirteenth Air Force in the Philippines...
...Washington decided to stand firm at Quemoy. The Joint Chiefs sent a Tactical Air Command task force of scores of medium jet bombers and supersonic jet interceptors to Formosa, sent carriers Essex and Midway to reinforce the four carriers in the Seventh Fleet, ordered the Seventh Fleet to escort Chinese Nationalist supply convoys to within three miles of Quemoy. A week later the President, in a speech from the White House, capped the U.S. effort: "A Western Pacific Munich would not buy us peace. There is not going to be any appeasement...
...their censorship, the Japanese joined in the controversy, took potshots at their own side with charges that recently drafted civilians had been sent out as Kamikaze flyers to save the professionals. Authors Inoguchi and Nakajima know better. They were staff officers in the Imperial Navy's First Air Fleet under Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who organized the first avowedly suicidal attacks. From the pilots' last letters home, the authors draw their most revealing and convincing testimony to the Kamikaze flyers' eagerness...
...hull. The Doria sank when three of its twelve compartments were flooded; the Da Vinci will float with three of its 15 compartments flooded. When the Leonardo goes into service in 1960, Italy expects to have a powerful new dollar earner as the flagship of her already prosperous fleet...
From Portland, Ore. to Piraeus, seamen last week staged a four-day international boycott against ships flying the flags of Panama, Liberia, Honduras and Costa Rica, which, taken together, form the world's fastest-growing merchant fleet (717 in 1951, 1,695 today). The boycott, sponsored by the International Transport Workers' Federation, which claims 200 affiliates in 62 nations with 7,000,000 members, was the start of a campaign to harass owners of "convenience" or "runaway" flag vessels, so called because the PanLibHonCo nations levy negligible taxes, have lower labor and safety standards than...