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...Both were near where Kormoran survivors had told interrogators they would be. In the 1990s, Perth naval-history buff Kim Kirsner sifted through those accounts and came up with possible coordinates. But many people were reluctant to believe the enemy, he says. The Germans stood accused of luring the Sydney with a white flag, sinking her and shooting at her crew in the water. There was "always a chorus in the background," says Kirsner, "that the Germans lied...
...Fresh off of a highlight-filled assistant coaching career at the Naval Academy, new head coach John Tillman has revolutionized Harvard’s game with the help of assistant coaches Anthony Kelly and Kevin Warne...
...success in a very competitive field, with the A division team of junior captain Megan Watson and freshman Meghan Wareham leading the team to a fifth-place finish.The co-ed squad placed ninth out of 20 teams at “The Trux,” held at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. “It’s probably the most competitive regular season regatta for fleet racing for the entire spring,” Watson said of the co-ed event.Meanwhile, some of the Crimson’s more inexperienced sailors stayed in Cambridge to compete...
...Fallon had held his command, which included Iraq and Afghanistan, for the past year. A Navy pilot, he liked to "push the envelope" both in the air and in his comments on U.S. policy in the region. In the April Esquire, Thomas Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, wrote that Fallon was "brazenly challenging" the Bush Administration's push to go to war with Iran, fighting "against what he saw as an ill-advised action." The lengthy article claimed that while President Bush wants war with Iran, "the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy," adding, "Who will...
...working for." Yet, both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also maintained that the current confrontation with Iran should be resolved diplomatically. But Fallon, when he got outside of Washington, let his independent streak - a tradition among naval officers - say things to TV cameras and reporters that back in the capital he would confine to closed-door meetings at the Pentagon. And the hawks who had been most sanguine about pressing the case for invading Iraq had also been urging a more confrontational line on Iran...