Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally the EARC ok'd it and the W.R.A. went to work. They enlisted the U.S. Navy to help them arrange the proceedings, taking the Naval Air Station at Anaoostia as the boathouse, storing the shells in the hangars. The Navy arranged for all the proceedings and provided its top brass, Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson, in his yacht, the Sequola, to present the Rowe Cup and give the Regatta official sanction...
...Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps has produced...
Dublin. As he went ashore on a naval launch from the liner America, he was greeted by pealing church bells and flocks of flag-waving moppets. Ambassador Taft picked up Sean, his own Dublin-born, three-year-old boy, for the crowd to see and said, "You're home again...
...brothers had creditable, if unexciting, war records. At 17, Billy volunteered for the Naval Air Force, spent 2½ years "trying to get into an airplane but washing them instead," came out a naval cadet. Ben, turned down by his draft board because of defective vision, also volunteered, served in Newfoundland with the Air Force and emerged an administrative captain. As a naval lieutenant, ., Henry was stationed at the Ford company, where he taught mathematics to sailors until released from the service to rejoin the company after his father's death...
...Navy's projected atomic aircraft carrier will have to use a cheaper power source than the $250 million breeder reactor called for in original plans. Two supercarriers now under construction will be finished, and funds to start a third will be available. Naval aviation funds will also...