Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRIEBEL Captain, U.S.N. U.S. Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn...
...Washington, Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would stop off at Madrid on his forthcoming tour of Western Europe. The British and French Foreign Offices nervously-and publicly-advised the U.S. against entering any military arrangement with Franco Spain...
Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, 56, Commander, Naval Forces in the Far East, got his first taste of Pacific warfare as operations officer of the cruiser Indianapolis during the Battle of Bougainville. Later, from his battle post as commander of the cruiser Louisville, he was pulled back to Washington to head the Navy's important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
...armed services use the lead-alloy Comet models ("accurate down to the thickness of the lacquer") to teach identification, demonstrate naval, land and air maneuvers on miniature battle grounds, and practice range-finding for gunners. Working from photos, blueprints or handmade models supplied by the armed forces, Comet's 50-man production line is ringed with the same security as many another defense plant. In an emergency, Comet's diemakers have turned out models of a weapon in 72 hours, from drawing board to finished product. At the time the first Walker Bulldog tanks rolled off the Cadillac...