Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting shell to victory. Major Richardson received the Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor, the Victory Medal and three clasps, the Croix de Guerre with two palms, the Montenegro Medal of Bravery, the Solidaridad of Panama. That helped to make up for the June afternoon on Trophy Point in 1904 when he, too, marched up to receive his class's last diploma...
...Colon, Panama the motor of an Army amphibian exploded, hurled a jagged piece of metal into the stomach of Private Ralph H. Lawson, killed...
...ship Relief. Significance- Naval maneuvers have a way of firing the imagination of otherwise level-headed journalists and Exercise M proved to be no exception. "The most impressive and important maneuvers ever conducted by the U. S. battle fleet," breathlessly reported a United Press correspondent, "have demonstrated that the Panama Canal can be captured or destroyed by an enemy fleet and that a Japanese-American naval war under present conditions is virtually impossible. ... In demonstrating that the canal could be taken, it was proven also that the cost would be so terrible as to make it actually impracticable because...
...Navy. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's regime as Commander-in-Chief (1932-33) is remembered for the mass operations around Hawaii at a critical time in the Far East (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933).* Admiral Sellers' term (1933-34), will be recalled for the forced fleet march across Panama, undertaken on his own initiative. And the man already selected to run the Fleet in 1934-35 is so unique, so vital a personality that his term of command is sure to be memorable. On June 15, two days before the Fleet ends its 17-day visit to New York...
...shore, but Admiral Reeves is taking no chances. Just as von Hindenburg prepared for his great victories against the Russians in 1914-15 by painstakingly studying the topography of the Masurian swamps, so Admiral Reeves has long concentrated on the "triangular strategic area" of Hawaii-Puget Sound-Panama...