Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Carroll T. Bonney, commander of the College Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit, said yesterday that he did not doubt the sincerity of the Young Progressives and that he thought they were trying to benefit the country...
...concept of voluntary and lasting cooperation between the partners." All Dutch forces would leave Indonesia within six months of transfer of sovereignty (to take place not later than Dec. 30). The U.S.I. would control its own army & navy, although the Dutch would keep the right to use the Surabaya naval base under Indonesian supervision; the U.S.I. would also control its own economy, although it promised not to seize any Dutch property, and to consult the Dutch in making trade agreements with foreign nations...
During World War II, the U.S. rated its bases in Newfoundland as the strongest outpost in North America's Atlantic defense. Nearly $400 million was pumped into Newfoundland during the war years to build air and naval installations on the rugged island. In peacetime an average of $30 million a year continued to flow from Washington to keep the bases in first-rate shape and, incidentally, provide Newfoundland with the equivalent of an important industry...
...school from foundering and increase its enrollment, he would be glad to take the job of skipper. Moreover, he knew just what he wanted the Jefferson of the future to be like: a school where students would lay the basis of interservice understanding by taking combined courses in "naval, military, air and diplomatic sciences." Said Tip Merrill, once an outspoken foe of service unification (TIME, April 22, 1946): "Jefferson Military College could set the example for the nation to follow...
Task Force. The ups & downs, through the years, of U.S. naval aviation, with a factual core of spectacular Navy combat films and fictional trimmings involving Gary Cooper (TIME...