Word: naval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a "working arrangement," a bilateral declaration of principles intended to clear the air of wild rumors about U.S.-Canadian military intentions in the Arctic. The gist of the agreement is that the two countries will exchange military observers and armed-service personnel; they will make their military, naval and air facilities available to each other; they will try to standardize weapons...
...probably the best extracurricular job any college professor ever had. Eventually promoted to captain, Morison could go & come as he pleased throughout the world-flung U.S. Navy. By V-J day he and his staff had witnessed all the major U.S. naval operations, discussed them with admirals, petty officers and seamen, consulted reams of action reports and war diaries. If North African Waters is a fair sample, the completed history will be one of the basic records of World...
...African Waters makes fascinating reading. The narrative repeatedly slows down to take aboard tables, charts and technical details. More informal books-e.g., Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone to smash...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...
Twenty-three-year-old Moravec, who hails from West Bridgewater, Pa., holds the Purple Heart for wounds received in a Naval encounter at Anzio Beach. He studied at Lehigh University before entering the service...