Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised and quite thrilled when I looked at the picture of General Eisenhower visiting my old regiment prior to our jump into Normandy. I was standing just behind the naval officer when the picture was taken, and I had not yet blackened my face for the jump...
...guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future hazardous missions? Answered Rear Admiral Frederic Stanton Withington, 57, U.S. naval commander in Japan: "I will sure do my best...
Taking down the Queen's picture was the most provocative thing Lee's forces did last week-as if determined to show how untrue were all those stories abroad that the Communists had now taken control of Britain's great Far East naval base. British officials on the scene, less alarmed, have convinced themselves that Lee's bark is worse than his bite. They agree that his bark is pretty ferocious, but they point to some paradoxes in his makeup. At 36, Prime Minister Lee is a Cambridge-trained barrister steeped in British ways of thought...
Brown University Olin J. Stephens II and Roderick Stephens Jr., naval architects, famed designers of the America's Cup winner Columbia...
University of Colorado Arleigh Burke, chief of U.S. Naval Operations Sc.D...