Word: mahan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mahan to Pearl Harbor. Early in 1942, when it became evident to the U.S. Navy that it was going to have to fight an island-to-island war in the Pacific (TIME, Jan. 31), Richmond Kelly Turner was picked to go to the Solomons and boss amphibious operations. He was chosen, among other reasons, because of his versatility...
...question, Where is the Jap fleet?, Naval Expert Alexander Kiralfy, writing in the October issue of Foreign Affairs, made an illuminating answer: The Jap theory of sea power differs radically from the U.S. or British theory as classically defined by Admiral Mahan...
...result of all this redesigning is a turbine which not only uses less fuel but is more rugged and simpler to operate than the old type, breaks down less often, has stood up superbly under the severest combat conditions from Iceland to the tropics. First installed experimentally in the Mahan class of destroyers, started in 1933, the new turbine is now standard equipment in most of the modern U.S. fleet...
...first time since Harvard's famed Eddie Mahan set down the world champion Boston Red Sox mine 1 to 0 in 1916, a Crimson baseball team invades the hallowed realms of the major leagues tomorrow afternoon, when the Varsity forces take on the Red Sox at Fenway Park at 3 o'clock...
...Admiral Mahan's skepticism notwithstanding, the principle of the Fleet in Being served the Germans well in World War I, and is powerfully at work against the U.S. as well as Britain in World War II. In this case the Fleet in Being is again a German fleet, gathered in a fjord near Trondheim, Norway. The mere threat of that fleet restricts the full use of perhaps four times its own strength in British and U.S. warships...