Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of the course is not solely Naval, for it will have a telling effect on the country at large. Upon completion of the four-month course these officers will be making decisions and taking action which may well have far reaching implications on the future of individual industrial companies employing thousands of people...
Practice has swung into full stride under the leadership of Coaches Henry Lamar and Floyd Stahl, who are running things until the return of veteran coach Dick Harlow. A squad of 34 men reported Monday the first day of practice, with the majority being from the Naval ROTC program. The coaches have a nucleus of experienced players to work with, which should prove quite helpful. These players include: Dave McKintosh and Rod Perkins, ends; Chet Pierce and Ted Woggan, tackles; Ellis Hodge and Mal Allen, guards; Bob MacDonald; Marvin Jenkins, Pete Harwood, and Bob Cowen, backs
...Fassarai, one of the atoll's southern islands. (The Japs had taken the able-bodied natives with them.) Leaving a doctor and a chief pharmacist's mate to administer to the people on Fassarai, the Navy put the Seabees to work. The result was something new in naval history: a vast service station enabling entire fleets to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from their main, landmass bases. Many a ship stayed out a year or more without returning to Pearl Harbor...
Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
Group No. 1, which included many naval and foreign service officers with experience in Japan, argued that much of Japan's strength came from conquered areas on the Asiatic mainland and the southern islands. This school argued that invasion of Japan proper might be both costly and inconclusive; it would be better just to pull Japan's teeth by liberating the conquered areas, leave Japan alone. (The fringe of this group put their fears of a war with Russia ahead of the actual war with Japan, wanted to preserve a counterbalance...