Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Albion's interest is the sea. He was born in Malden but managed to grow up on Maine's Casco Bay; by World War I his seafaring ancestry was showing its effect, and Albion joined the Naval Reserve. After what he calls a "delightful" series of training eruises, Albion began to feel that he would like a little combat action, so he jumped leagues and promoted himself a commission as an infantry licutenant...
...lonesome for the sight of water that he started riding a ferry back and forth across the Ohio River "just to remember what it felt like." After his discharge, Albion traveled via Harvard to the Admiralty in London, where he turned out a Ph.D thesis for another naval historian, Professor Samuel Eliot Morison...
Albion got an appointment to Princeton the same day he took his General Exams here, and soon was made an Assistant Dean in charge of Flunking. He interspersed earnest warnings to errant Prinetonians with a couple of courses in military and naval science, and eventually worked his way to a position teaching his favorite subject, maritime history...
...list was too impressive to dismiss. Next day the Navy's top test pilot appeared to back up Radford's claims. Captain Frederick M. Trapnell, 47, commander of the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Md., has probably flown more types of planes than any other U.S. pilot. He testified that standard Navy radar had no trouble picking up small jet fighters at 40,000 ft., that Navy fighters had made interceptions at that altitude by day and by night. Said Trapnell: "If you were to ride as an observer...
Task Force. The ups & downs, through the years, of U.S. naval aviation, with a factual core of spectacular Navy combat film and fictional trimmings involving Gary Cooper (TIME...