Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road, firing away. A half-hour later-it was late afternoon now-a solid overcast blew in from the ocean and completely covered the mountains. The minute that happened, I took and went up the mountain." "There He Goes." Meanwhile, intelligence of Captain Wilkins' plight flashed back to naval headquarters at Wonsan Harbor, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Kelvin Koelsch, a 27-year-old helicopter pilot from Hudson, N.Y., volunteered to try a rescue. It was the sort of mission Koelsch liked: he had voluntarily passed up rotation home after a long tour of combat duty because he felt...
...Philadelphia, newsmen and Pentagon brass watched the YC-123E "Panto-base" plane, a new amphibious version of the Air Force's land-based Chase C-123 transport, go through its paces on the Delaware River. Pilot Bernie Hughes made a normal take-off from nearby Mustin Naval Air Station, then pulled up the wheels, lowered a pair of 13-ft. skis from the plane's belly and made several demonstration landings and take-offs on the water. Unlike regular amphibians, the two-engined YC-123E loses a minimum of speed and range with its new landing gear...
Died. Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, 75, head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington (1942-44), commander in chief of the Western Approaches in the fight against Nazi U-boats (1941-42), commander in chief of the China Station (1938-40); of coronary thrombosis; in London. Regarded as a top naval strategist, destroyer-trained Sir Percy organized the British defenses that helped keep World War II's North Atlantic convoy routes open...
...only the be ginning of a whole new atomic Navy. At last week's launching, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas declared: "This fiscal year the Navy will have eight nuclear-powered submarines in being or under construction, and in rapid succession thereafter, many others . . . Nuclear propulsion for larger naval ships, e.g., carriers, is well advanced." Next, he predicted atomic aircraft, and particularly "nuclear-powered seaplanes." Without ceremony or speeches, early in the morning of the Seawolf's launching, the same shipyard began the assembly of a third, smaller, improved atomic sub marine...
...Dwight Eisenhower was making hay at the Summit, the man who ran against him in 1952 was watching the haymaking down on the farm. From his home at Libertyville, Ill. ailing Adlai Stevenson last week scratched out a note to ailing Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.: "Dear Lyndon: I am sitting on my little farm recuperating from bronchial pneumonia. They are making hay out here. But now the tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle...