Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work-the sinking of the Royal Oak-was one of the most clear-cut successes that the German navy achieved in World War II. Winston Churchill admiringly called it an "incredible . . . feat of arms." This book is a selection of the papers from some 60,000 files of German naval archives, containing practically all the official ships' logs, diaries and memoranda relating to the German navy up to April 1945. Hitler and His Admirals, unlike Liddell Hart's The German Generals Talk, contains no postwar interviews with German officers. Nor does it primarily concentrate on their differences with...
...Student Aid Program, initiated last year, places qualified undergraduates in temporary appointments in engineering (civil, electrical, and mechanical), chemistry, physics, mathematics, metallurgy, naval architecture, and psychology. Last year the program handled 58 students from 17 New England colleges...
King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...
Married. David Aiken Reed, 68, onetime Old Guard Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, onetime chairman of the Military Affairs Committee and delegate to the 1930 London Naval Conference; and Edna M. French, 64, his late wife's cousin; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Canaan, Conn...
...death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...