Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British estimated that the action would reduce the Russians' total uniformed manpower by as much as one-third. The Russians themselves said it meant the disbandment of 63 divisions and brigades, including some 30,000 men stationed in East Germany. They said they also intend to mothball 375 naval vessels, deactivate three air divisions, cut armaments and military budgets. "Other governments," said the Russian statement, "insofar as they are sincerely willing to contribute to the strengthening of peace, cannot but follow suit...
...papers (they found none). A few weeks later, Matthews drew a red line through Burke's name on a list of promotions to rear admiral; it was back on the next list after a press outcry and the personal intervention of Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, with President Truman...
...determination, and at the same time see that the Greeks (who would undoubtedly win) give protective guarantees to the island's 20% Turk minority. Britain's needs in Cyprus would be amply served by a long-term lease guaranteeing free use of the sizable air, troop and naval base they are now building on the Episkopi Bay; NATO could underwrite a Greek guarantee so that Britain need not fear that one concession would lead to another, as in Egypt when the British were driven from the Suez Canal Zone...
This was their story: Russian seamen had spotted the frogman, wearing a black diving suit and flippers on his feet, at 7:30 one morning, floating between two Soviet destroyers. He stayed on the surface a minute or two. then dived under. The Russian admiral complained to the Portsmouth naval base commander, a rear admiral, who "categorically denied the possibility" of a British frogman in the area. "In actual fact," said Moscow, Crabb's secret activities have since been confirmed. The Foreign Office answer was a model of stiff-lipped embarrassment: "Commander Crabb carried out frogman tests...
...word of the deaths was passed to the "decedent affairs desk" at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda. Md.. which in turn called Commander George W. Hyatt, director of the hospital's tissue bank. Dr. Hyatt, an orthopedic surgeon, seized the chance to turn a loss of life into a lifesaving procedure. He arranged for the bodies to be moved 20 miles to the hospital's morgue, then turned to "the toughest part of my job": telephoning the two families to notify them of the deaths. Dr. Hyatt waited an hour or so for the first shock...