Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were soon shelled, mortared, mined, machine-gunned. But even as the German commander at Omaha announced victory and began diverting his reserves against the British, U.S. Colonel George A. Taylor ordered an advance: "Now let's get the hell out of here!" Inch by inch, behind accurate naval gunfire, backed up by waves of reinforcement, the U.S. infantrymen pushed back the German defenders...
...whose energy belies his age, Morison has kept busy since his retirement in 1955 after some forty years of teaching. In the past few years Morison has been working on a huge project for the United States Navy: a History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. He has just completed Volume 13 of this imposing assignment...
West Germany is still forbidden by treaty to produce ABC weapons (atomic, bacteriological and chemical warfare). But restrictions are being relaxed to permit German-made short-range antitank rockets. Naval training vessels are no longer limited to 3,000 tons. Germans may soon be allowed to manufacture antiaircraft rockets as well...
...that it would have to conclude the Panmunjom talks or risk an all-out U.S. drive to win the war. Red China signed. Dulles was improvising, experimenting, learning as he went along. His next move: Indo-China. First, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Radford recommended U.S. naval air strikes to help the beleaguered French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support to a shaky new Nationalist government in South...
...head football coach, apparently in pique at Academy refusal to give athletes special privileges, Navy picked his successor: Wayne Hardin, 32, for four years backfield coach under Erdelatz. Captain Slade Cutter, Navy's athletic director, pointedly described Hardin as "a man who knows the problems at the Naval Academy and sympathizes with them...