Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate, University of Oregon; business experience, 1932-44; U.S. Marine Corps, 1944-45 ; U.S. Naval Reserve, 1947 to date...
Navy films of rocket experiments make up the best part of this picture. Shots of the firing of a V-2 from the deck of an aircraft carrier open "Guided Missile." The success of this test was a revolutionary development in naval warfare. Subsequent scenes show detailed launchings of smaller 'Loon' and 'Dragonfly' rockets from land platforms, along with the radio and radar equipment that controls them. Navy scientists also demonstrate the weird acrobatics of a radio-controlled torpedo plane landing with hatch drawn back, exposing the empty cockpit. When these documentary scenes predominate, as they do in the first...
...length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This maneuvering slows "Guided Missile" down to a dead walk near the end as Ford fights his way through various psychosomatic difficulties. Mired in "naval" cliches, this picture will be palatable only to rocket fanciers...
...that time the ratio of servicemen--mostly naval--to students was about five to one; this figure remained approximately constant throughout the war. The Navy conducted a communications and an indoctrination school, the Army a quartermaster and field artillery ROTC as well as a chaplain's school, and the Air Force a statisticians school here during the war. These were gradually established from June, 1941 through the summer...
...naval diversion was staged at Inchon, where the U.S. cruiser St. Paul and two destroyers pumped shells ashore. A few South Korean marines steamed boldly into Inchon harbor in an 80-ft. gunboat, tied up at a dock, skirmished ashore for four hours, killed 40 Chinese and sailed away with two prisoners. This week, the battleship Missouri and other vessels, including carriers, heavily bombarded the town of Kansong on the east coast...