Word: kalbfus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gurkin, with assorted State and local dignitaries, boarded the flagship California to welcome the U. S. Fleet to Virginia waters. Then they went ashore for a big civic luncheon. In mid-meal came a message from Washington. The officials gaped at their honor guest, Admiral Edward C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus. There was no longer much point in greeting the Fleet. Franklin Roosevelt (through Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson) had ordered most of it back to the Pacific...
Basic set-up of the Navy's Problem XX was for a "White" attacking force under Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus to try from mid-Atlantic to penetrate a "Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from Venezuela's eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed...
...practice the Navy therefore gave a slight edge to Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews' defending "Blacks" as they steamed to sea in cruise formation (standard with all navies) to protect the vital Panama Canal from salty Vice Admiral E. C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus' attacking "Whites...
...Hindmarsh has also accepted an invitation from Rear Admiral E. C. Kalbfus of the Naval War College to speak to naval officers in Newport on Tuesday, March 19, concerning "Japanese Policy-Development and Trends...