Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM G. BOWEN, U.S.N. Naval Training Device Center Orlando...
Beneath the warm blue waters of the Mediterranean, a sea whose mood is usually thought of as serene, 121 men died in one of the most bizarre coincidences in naval annals. Hundreds of miles but only some 24 hours apart, an Israeli and a French submarine were lost in separate, unconnected and equally mysterious disasters. Sinking swiftly to great depths without leaving as much as a trace to guide searchers, Israel's Dakar went down somewhere between Cyprus and Haifa and France's Minerve only about 25 miles from her home berth at Toulon. Their entire crews...
...fate during a training exercise. The 850-ton French submarine, commissioned in 1964 and named after the Roman goddess of wisdom, left no more clues to what happened than the Dakar. Ruling out possible undersea disturbances radiating from an earthquake in Sicily about the same time, Israeli and French naval officials deduced that the two submarines experienced some major mechanical or electrical failure while submerged...
...released from the Navy four months ago. About to begin commercial-airline pilot training, he was ordered back to duty with Squadron VA831. "I'm not upset," said Dodge. "I'm very anxious to see justice done." Another who felt the same way was Marko Jukica, a naval gunner in the Austro-Hungarian fleet during World War I. On mobilization day, Jukica offered his services to the Navy, was politely turned down when he admitted that he was 79 years...
...battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...