Word: fleets
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According to the court documents, John Walker began spying for the Soviets in 1968, when he was a communications watch officer for the commander of the Atlantic submarine fleet in Norfolk. The FBI said that Arthur became involved in 1980, when he passed along documents and photographs he was able to obtain with his "secret" security clearance. Michael, who helped out at his father's detective agencies before joining the Navy, has been involved in the family spy business at least since 1983, after he had finished boot camp and was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia...
...sensitive information that the Navy possesses. After serving on two nuclear-missile-carrying submarines, the U.S.S. Andrew Jackson and the U.S.S. Simon Bolivar, from 1962 to 1967, Walker was posted to Norfolk from 1967 to 1969. There he was privy to communications codes for the entire U.S. Atlantic submarine fleet...
...following three months after Pearl Harbor: 'My fellow Americans, Hitler's armies are smashing at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad. Russia will be knocked out of the war in the course of the next six to eight weeks . . . The Japanese have just destroyed the heart of our fleet at Pearl Harbor and we see no way to stop them...
...from nearly a decade of turmoil that culminated in the February 1984 spin-off of its lucrative hotel and food-service divisions into a separate company. The airline posted earnings of $29.9 million in 1984, its first profit in four years, partly the result of cutbacks in its jet fleet and work force. TWA remains the No. 1 carrier on transatlantic routes, which are highly profitable. But losses on domestic flights, where cut-rate fares are common, threaten to wipe out the gains made on the overseas front...
...were Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...