Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...
...Supreme Allied Commander Europe, i.e., Dwight Eisenhower). They could guess at EB (the Executive Bureau of the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Council), but who could explain that SUSREP-NADPB meant Senior U.S. Representative North Atlantic Defense Production Board, or that CINCNELM meant Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean? Whether a man was a MRS (Military Representative Standing Group) or a FLAGCENT (Flag Officer Central Europe), he was expected to know the difference between JAMAG (Joint American Military Assistance Group), MAPAG (Military Assistance Program Advisory Group) and the numerous MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Groups). There...
Last week the Royal Canadian Navy was redfaced and backing water. In naval barracks near Victoria, B.C., a court-martial sat in judgment on the surgeon lieutenant who called himself Joseph Cyr. He was charged with fraudulent entry into the navy because that was not his name: he had borrowed it, along with copies of medical credentials, from a real Joseph C. Cyr who practices in Grand Falls, N.B. The court's sentence: "Discharge with disgrace" (a shade less disgraceful than a "discharge with dishonor...
...Bremerhaven for transfer to U.S. hands before month's end, said a Soviet note. Promised two years ago, they have been stuck in the ice off Siberia, according to the Russians, and have apparently just become unstuck. The transfer will reduce the total number of lend-leased U.S. naval and merchant vessels still unreturned and unpaid for by the Russians to a mere...
KAMCHATKA PENINSULA: nine divisions (two infantry, one marine, one paratroop, five airborne); 300 planes, naval units including a submarine flotilla at the major naval base of Petropavlovsk...