Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-hand coverage of the U.S. Navy's part in the Asian conflict, Correspondent Wilson Fielder is with our naval forces in the Korean area. Fielder was in China until the fall of Shanghai, more recently has been in Hong Kong and Tokyo...
...British naval units last week staged their first combined offensive actions of the Korean war. In a two-day series of strikes by carrier planes, U.S. Panther jet fighters, rocket-armed Corsair fighters and Skyraider attack bombers from the carrier Valley Forge struck airfields, trains and bridges near the Communist capital of Pyongyang. British Firefly bombers and Seafire fighters (carrier version of Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week...
Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, 55, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East, has the cruiser Juneau and four destroyers. Tall, quiet Charles Joy is a gunnery expert who practiced the technique of shore bombardment at Guadalcanal, the Aleutians and Attu...
...hours last week, a tight feeling of crisis hung over Esquimalt naval base on Vancouver Island. Wives and sweethearts gathered for tearful farewells as the destroyers Cayuga, Athabaskan and Sioux slipped their moorings and headed into the straits bound for Pearl Harbor. The Canadian government had put them at the disposal of General Douglas MacArthur for use in the Korean...
...Wright, acting head of the U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group, had been in Tokyo. General MacArthur's chief air officer, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, was somewhere on the West Coast, on his way back from service on an officers' selection board in Washington. The chief of naval operations for the South Korean navy was in Pearl Harbor, picking up some PCs turned over by the U.S. Vice-Admiral Arthur D. Struble, boss of the U.S. Seventh (Asiatic) Fleet, was a long hop from his Manila headquarters: he had flown to Washington, B.C. to attend the marriage...