Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed" as whites. The father was a prosperous doctor and a pillar of the community, the mother an active worker in civic affairs. The children, unaware of their antecedents, were normal, happy-go-lucky American school kids-until the day their father, whose secret had been exposed by U.S. naval intelligence, told them the truth. From there on, they became in their own minds pariahs in a nightmare world of shrieking suspicions and shrinking fears...
...Drastically slashing the naval budget...
...German giant for months; now that she had slipped away from her Baltic anchorage, the Home Fleet would have a crack at her at last. When Flying Officer Suckling photographed the Bismarck from his Spitfire on a May afternoon in 1941, he touched off the greatest sea hunt in naval history...
...Bismarck Episode is a retired British naval officer's remarkably lucid account of the pursuit, cornering and sinking of the pride of Hitler's navy. An author of less background might have pulled out all the stops and wallowed happily but confusingly in the story's drama. Author Grenfell,* veteran of 30 years' service, including the Jutland and Dardanelles actions in World War I, sticks sternly to facts and understatement...
Other speakers were Captain A. L. Pleasants, U.S.N., Commanding Officer, Boston Branch, Office of Naval Research; Alan T. Waterman, Deputy Chief and Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research; H. M. MacNeille, Chief of the Fundamental Research Branch, Division of Research, Atomic Energy Commission; Urner Liddel, Acting Director of the Physical Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research; and Lee L. Davenport, Associate Director of the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory...