Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Towards the end of May, the 16,000-ton Polish luxury liner Batory moved into drydock at Hebburn-on-Tyne. That night the British harbor pilot, Harry Leslie, had dinner with cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...
Suddenly, in the four months from April through July 1944, U.S. forces take giant steps to victory. MacArthur leapfrogs nearly 1,000 miles along the New Guinea coast to threaten the Philippines. The Navy moves into the Marianas, 3,500 miles from Pearl Harbor, strips the Japanese fleet of its air arm in a great battle off Saipan and sets up new advance bases. And the Marines and Army take Saipan, Tinian and Guam...
...overly cautious? No, says Morison, he had the Saipan beachhead to think of. "Military men never get any credit for guarding against dangers that might occur yet do not; but they are quickly 'hanged' if they fail adequately to guard against dangers that do occur-witness Pearl Harbor." Moreover, Morison argues, the battle was fully as decisive as Ozawa thought it was when he radioed his fleet: "The fate of the Empire rests on this one battle...
...class toured Boston Harbor on board the "Boston Belle," last night. At 11 a.m. today the Navy will commission its officers in Paine Music Hall, and later the Class--except for those playing--will march to the baseball game...
...participated in the Baccalaureate service, with John H. Finley, master of Eliot House, delivering the sermon. Last night it held the Senior Spread in the Eliot House Senior courtyard, with music by Woody Herman. Later tonight the class will board the "Boston Belle," and take a ride around Boston Harbor. Music on board will be by Sammy Eisen...