Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominated by President Truman to be U.S. Chief of Naval Operations and Navy member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Admiral William Morrow Fechteler (pronounced...
...naval aviator. Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, the first of his race, was shot down and killed while flying from the carrier S.S. Leyte in Korea...
...argument went on & on. To reporters outside the conference room, it seemed that the tones of the Communist interpreters had grown strident, almost angry. The Reds began raising new issues, demanded an end to U.N. air and naval bombardment of North Korean positions. At week's end, Brigadier General William Nuckols, U.N. press officer, reported: "Little if any progress is being made...
...bridge, got a job working on riverboats at twelve, soon afterward joined the embryonic Soviet navy. Kuznetsov is a member of the Party Central Committee, accompanied Stalin to Yalta. During the Spanish civil war, he was reported in charge of the Loyalists' small naval forces...
...much a test as the cruel sea was for his characters. The son of a Liverpool surgeon, he had written four novels with the grace, talent and final inconsequence that seem the natural equipment of many a young English writer. Then came the war and four nonfiction books on naval operations, all of them good, one of them, H.M. Corvette, just about the best of its kind...