Word: guantanamo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconnoitering cruises, its commander, Captain Cotton, sighted a large man-of-war off the coast of Santiago. On proceeding nearer, he made out what he took to be the Spanish flag, and turning about without wasting time for verifying this impression, steamed away at full speed for Guantanamo. The "Spaniard" also altered his course for Guantanamo, and Captain Cotton had the premonition that he was being chased...
...rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight earlier had sailed for Guantanamo Bay. Neither was a licensed flyer, although Gushing claimed to have soloed. To bring fame to themselves and their ship, they had planned the flight. They funded their savings of $1,200, somehow raised $800 more from shipmates and bought the old monoplane, on which they still owed $10 when...
...Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...
...before a wood fire. On deck he played medicine ball, losing one ball overboard. After dinner (for which he dressed) an orchestra played softly, he attended talking cinema shows (Rain or Shine, The Temple Tower). The third day out the Taylor was to be relieved by the Dupont from Guantanamo. A miniature presidential review was arranged. For nearly an hour the President, Capt. Freeman and the Arizona's crew stood at the rail awaiting the Dupont which had miscalculated the battleship's position. When the Dupont did not arrive, as a substitute diversion Capt. Freeman sent his crew into...