Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicize Navy Day, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, commandant of the Third Naval District, turned over his command for the day to James F. Rappaport, 14, of The Bronx. Settling back in the admiral's chair, young Rappaport announced: "When I grow up I want to be a lawyer...
...Naval Academy discharged Midshipman Frederick W. Lauer Jr., a senior, who had bought up 400 extra tickets to the Navy-Penn game from lower classmen at $3.60 apiece for sale to a scalper. Possible profit: at $20 a ticket...
...Winslow boy (Michael Newell) is dismissed, at the age of 13, from the British Royal Naval College at Osborne for stealing and cashing another boy's five-shilling postal order. Back home, he insists to his father (Alan Webb) that he is innocent, whereupon his father launches what proves a back-breaking struggle to clear his son's name. For the elder Winslow, in challenging an arm of the British Navy, has not only the law's delays and bureaucratic red tape to contend with, but the Admiralty's withering self-assurance and the House...
...field of fire. Their books have only this in common: each contains a fairly detailed operations report that historians and experts, armchair and professional, will find required reading. Beyond that, Admiral Halsey's Story is a routine, ghost-spun autobiography of a forthright, successful, but essentially uninteresting naval man. War As I Knew It is the sometimes irritating but always readable book of a soldier with curiosity and imagination...
...with the Cadet rank of Lieutenant. Dewey G. Rushford '48 rates next as battalion adjutant with the rank of Lieutenant, j.g. with Frank, Jr. '48 as battalion lieutenant with the rank of Ensign. John G. Flint, Jr. '48 and Sherwood C. Chillingworth '49 are the company commandants for the naval unit...