Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October 1944 he entered a Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods...
Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, said "anything to further the team spirit." He thought a nice date would be Sept. 2-the day the Japanese surrendered aboard the battleship Missouri...
...injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining had been done by the Yugoslavs, Shawcross argued that Albania was responsible for what happened in her territorial waters. His star witness was a former Yugoslav naval officer, Karel Kovacic, who had seen mine-laden Yugoslav ships leave the Sibenik naval base, he said, a few days before the British ships struck the mines...
Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of American History, who served as Historian of United States Naval Operations in World War II, will present his annual public lecture on the Battle of Midway at 12 noon today at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Morison was appointed to the job of historian for the navy by President Roosevelt, and at present is writing a 12-volume "History of U.S. Naval Operations." He served at the North African invasion and other actions, and is the author of many historical works, both on Harvard and the United and the United States...