Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five infants snuggled in their parents' laps. Pilot Alfred O. Cockrill of Pittsfield, Mass., late of the Naval Air Transport service, took off, headed northwest for Miami, on the way to New York...
With a minimum of whoopdedo, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown...
...sitting duck. Last week the Joint Chiefs of Staff sensibly ruled that there could be "no useful purpose" in staging a duel in public between the B-36 and jet fighters. The memorandum was unwillingly signed by Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the senior member of the JCS, whose Naval airmen had started all the hullabaloo in the first place...
...orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen was decoyed out of the U.S. and captured by British Naval Intelligence, was returned to the U.S., served four years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary before being pardoned by President Wilson...
...combine advancing on a field of summer wheat. He set out "to crack a few heads together," and he did so by bold and brusque decisions. In his fourth week in office he ordered the Navy to scrap its biggest dreamboat, the $188 million supercarrier, United States, and ended naval aviation's dream of striking at the heart of any enemy with the atomic bomb. The strategic bombing role would go to Secretary Stuart Symington's Air Force...