Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander A. Elder of the Marine Corps, assistant professor of Naval Science, obtained the delay for the seniors. They had previously been ordered to report for active duty on June...
Openings in the program this year were available to all undergraduates who could pass the rigid Naval physical tests...
MacArthur flung down his challenge and his program. "While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China ... I felt that military necessity in the conduct of the war made necessary i) intensification of our economic blockade against China; 2) imposition of a naval blockade against the China coast; 3) removal of restrictions on air reconnaissance of China's coastal area and of Manchuria; 4) removal of restrictions on the [Chinese Nationalists] on Formosa, with logistical support to contribute to their effective operations against the Chinese mainland...
ROTC men like the smattering of various sciences they get by concentrating in Physical Sciences. Not only do these courses provide good background for future specialization, but distribution difficulties are eased, for two of the advanced Air, Military, and Naval Science courses may be counted...
...land & sea as well as by air, the allies were doing everything possible to hamper Communist communications to the fighting front. Near Songjin, almost 200 miles north of the 38th parallel on the east coast, 250 British marines went ashore from a naval task force led by the U.S. heavy cruiser St. Paul. While the ships shielded them with a curtain of fire, the commandos mined 100 yards of the Communists' main east coast rail line, blew a trough 16 ft. deep in the roadbed. After seven hours ashore, the British got back on their ship without a casualty...