Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area in the south of England],he [General Bradley] made a short speech to all the officers of the division .. . He did not tell these officers that their task would be easy. He did tell them that their country was giving them the best of weapons, planning, air and naval support. But he told them that life and victory would lie in their own hands. They must be fit, know their weapons, use their skill and wits. They must have confidence in themselves; then their men would have confidence in them. Omar Bradley, who is no orator, ended with...
...teaching law at Duke University to become assistant to McMahon in the Justice Department's Criminal Division; there the two became friends. Dean spent six years at Justice, quit to join McMahon's Washington law firm. After the war, in which he served as a lieutenant in Naval Intelligence, Dean went back to teaching law (at the University of Southern California) until McMahon...
...ensign just out of the Naval Academy told me later: "Suddenly the war got awfully personal. The prows of those boats were high out of the water. They were roaring in for the kill. We opened fire with the 40 millimeters, our main-battery five-inchers and everything we had. When the smoke and spray had cleared away there they were, still boring right on in. Finally we forced three of the boats onto the beach and sent a shore party in to capture their crews. The fourth changed course and headed out to sea with throttles wide open. Since...
Death of Wolfe, on loan for the first time. The Mexican National Museum of History contributed scenes from the Mexican War, and from his private collection King George VI sent a print of a naval engagement on Lake Champlain...
...Committee (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948) that the U.S. assemble a 70-group Air Force, buy some 5,200 planes a year from U.S. manufacturers. Instead, the Administration decided 48 groups would be enough. Last year, when Congress instead voted $2.6 billions for a 58-group Air Force and for Naval aviation, Johnson set aside $851 million of the money to keep the ceiling at 48 groups. But deliveries now scheduled for fiscal 1951 will not even provide the 2,672 planes required for that...