Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days a Navy court-martial in Washington (five captains and two commanders) heard, in secret, the case against Lieut. Commander Edward Neal Little, 39-year-old Naval Academy graduate who won the Silver Star for gallantry during Corregidor's last days. Behind the case-a deep hatred of Little by some Army, Navy and Marine Corps enlisted men who had been his fellow prisoners of war at Camp 17, Omuta, where the Japanese worked American P.W.s in the coal mines...
House slash of $377 million in the Navy budget. His estimate of the damage: 157 ships, 100,000 men, 1,000 aircraft. Said he: "A reduction in naval strength of any such magnitude . . . would surely be interpreted as evidence of our intention to recede from our international obligations and commitments abroad...
...present commanders of other services will be gone. Sometime next fall, the Veterans Administration's General Omar Bradley will probably take over Ike's job. Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter; the Marines' Major General Graves Erskine will probably take over from General A. A. Vandegrift...
Pools of Flame. Eastern's DC-4 had gone down in a woodland between the village of Port Deposit on the Susquehanna River and Perryville on the Pennsylvania Railroad; within a few minutes, automobiles from nearby towns and farms were headed for the spot. Fire equipment and naval enlisted men from nearby Bainbridge Naval Training Station soon joined them...
William Francis Gibbs '10, vice president of Gibbs and Cox Inc., naval architects, who was given the American Design award for making possible mass production of ships through standardization of parts. Doctor of Science. Citation: "Naval architect and marine engineer, in the forefront of his profession; the engineer of all manner of new craft for peace...