Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walker led his last expedition. This time Honduras was his target. Eluding a blockade of U.S. and British naval vessels, he landed with some 100 men, captured a small town and then fled into the jungle when a British man-of-war arrived. Twelve days later, a bone-tired Walker was captured by a British naval officer, handed over to Honduran authorities, court-martialed and shot. "Had he succeeded," says Truman, somewhat unconvincingly, "he might have made a successful contribution to the organization of the Central American situation, into which he wanted to include Cuba-all of which might have...
...trio of red tugboats nuzzled SS(N) 593-the nuclear submarine Thresher-away from her berth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The tug whistles blasted, and three small children, still flushed from farewells to their fathers aboard Thresher, honked back from a car parked near by. The submarine headed out toward a sunny...
...Perhaps Harvey, his communications out, was simply riding out heavy surface seas in the tranquil depths. But by midafternoon, with Thresher silent for six hours, Navy patrol planes began circling the area. At 3:35 a hot line buzzed in the Pentagon office of Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. He learned for the first time that Thresher had disappeared. Within half an hour President Kennedy and all key Pentagon men had been informed...
Capt. Edward A. Rodgers, professor of Naval Science, repudiated the charges pointing out that a desire not to miss regular classes was a legitimate reason for not attending the parade. He added that only about 50 of the NROTC unit's 130 members were expected to march anyway...
...speech, on top of the growing troubles in the front negotiations, was enough for Argentina's navy. Headed by Rear Admiral Jorge Julio Palma. 46. commander of the Puerto Belgrano naval base, a group of officers wanted an end to all talk about elections, argued for the ouster of Guido as President and the establishment of a "benevolent dictatorship" that would attempt to stabilize the economy and "normalize" the political situation. Though his forces were small-25,000 navymen and 17,000 marines, compared with 87,000 men in the army and 22,000 in the air force-Admiral...