Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...
...Manila, Japanese emissaries confirmed an Office of Naval Intelligence prediction: the Jap Navy had literally been blown out of the seas by war's end. Of twelve battleships, only the heavily damaged Nagato was left. Of 21 carriers, four derelicts remained. Four cruisers (of 43) were still afloat but abandoned. Twenty-six destroyers (of 165) and 16 submarines (of 140) were about all that was left of the Imperial Fleet...
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, a 62-year-old flyer, had just taken command of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now the Army countered with a new West Point superintendent: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, commander of the loist Airborne Division. Handsome Missouri-born General Taylor, who speaks fluent French, Spanish and Japanese, will be the youngest Military Acaeemy head since young (39) Douglas Mac Arthur took over the Point in 1919. Taylor graduated fourth in his class the last year MacArthur was there...
Port Arthur will become a Russian naval base-but the Chinese navy, when there is one, will have access to it; civil administration of the port will be Chinese. Russia gets the use of another port, Dairen, on equal terms with China; the harbor master will be a Russian...
Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...