Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Eliot Morison, the Navy's Boswell, has reached mid-1944 (and Vol. 8) in his projected 14-volume U.S. naval history of World War II, and the Pacific war takes on a grander sweep and a faster pace. For two years, General MacArthur's forces have been straining to break the Bismarcks Barrier. In the nibbling operations in the Gilberts and Marshalls, the Marines have taken a successful but costly bite at Tarawa. Meanwhile, the Navy has been unable to engage any large part of the Japanese fleet since Midway...
...drew his first consistent headlines by organizing and running the Senate's Preparedness subcommittee early in the Korean war. Lyndon knew the field; he had specialized in military affairs in the House, had served for eight months during World War II on leave from the House as a naval officer in the Pacific. His Preparedness subcommittee infuriated the Pentagon, but did what non-Pentagon observers consider a good job. It saved the U.S. taxpayers $500 million by recommending changes in the tin program, saved $1 billion by its discovery that the Government was paying too much for natural rubber...
...sleek new 12,800-ton Russian cruiser Sverdlov* appeared off the Isle of Wight last week, bound for the coronation naval review. A British pilot went aboard, but Captain Olimpey Rudakov had no need for him. Silent on the bridge, his chest diagonally festooned with medals, Captain Rudakov manipulated a series of levers behind him to convey his orders to the engine room and the helmsman. At the correct spot, the correct time, he dropped anchor. Simultaneously, with a flick of another switch, he set off a 21-gun salute...
...According to British naval estimates," said Radio Moscow, "the anchoring of the Sverdlov should have taken one hour, 20 minutes. The Soviet cruiser anchored in 12 minutes." Asked the London News Chronicle: "Who said the Russians were no seamen...
Kennedy's next" assignment was Newport, R.I., as instructor to a group of Russian naval officers, teaching tactics and maintenance of PT boats to be delivered under Lend-Lease. Shortly after the Normandy invasion, he was nicked in the knee by a piece of German shrapnel. The next day in Cherbourg he met Ann Newdick, a Red Cross worker whom he married two months later in Paris...