Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stationed near the Tongan capital, Nukualofa, during the war. My artillery outfit was part of a task force consisting of Naval and Army units . . . and your fine account revived many pleasant memories...
Since last March this ship of the Idaho desert has been "cruising" intermittently toward the North Pole.* Having no bow or stern, or water to float in, it has not moved an inch, but the long, rigorous tests of its nuclear power system have been brilliantly successful. Naval designers, tacticians and strategists are aware (some with regret) that a revolution in sea power is sweeping out of Idaho...
...work-ferociously-when inany good officers were relaxing in the interwar illusion of peace. He specialized on electrical equipment, after five years of sea duty went back to the Naval Academy for postgraduate work in electrical engineering. When on the battleship Nevada as a lieutenant j.g., he and his men installed a 500-unit battle telephone system. When on the submarine S-48, he redesigned its defective motors. He fought against waste and slipshod ways. These activities earned him commendation, but they won few friends and no preferment...
Dominant Pigboats. There are still some skeptics in the Navy, but as the Nautilus approaches her launching date, a fever of excitement is spreading in naval circles. The submariners, who have long grimly called themselves "the submerged service," now look forward to a time when their new boats will be the dominant ships of the Navy. The Nautilus will be the first "true" submarine, wholly independent of the atmosphere...
...Naval Cavalry. Okinawa was also a good example of the way U.S. destroyers had to meet duties and challenges far different from those foreseen by the old conception of destroyers as naval cavalry. This concept assumed decisive battles between surface fleets and saw the destroyers plunging ahead to close range, firing their torpedoes at enemy battleships and wheeling away, their thin sides throbbing, under protective smoke screens. The destroyers learned to deal with submarine wolf packs, planes and a host of unpredictables, including even the need to fight in the old cavalry fashion...