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Lost & Found. Off Pensacola, Fla., Chief Machinist Mate Dilbert D. Woolworth dropped his cigarette lighter into the Gulf, five minutes later got it back from a 15-lb. grouper hooked by his fishing companion...
...President Monroe during the First Seminole War (1818). Jackson was given permission to pursue warring Indians across the border into Spanish Florida, but because of strained relations with Spain and England had orders to seize no Spanish military posts. He ignored orders, stormed the forts of St. Marks and Pensacola, and for good measure twisted the British lion's tail by executing two British subjects who were aiding the Indians. For a time, the U.S. tottered on the brink of war, and Monroe's Cabinet said Jackson had "committed war upon Spain . . . which, if not disavowed," would ruin...
Arthur Godfrey fans would not be seeing their freckle-faced favorite on TV screens for a while. He was off for a short tour as a reserve officer in the Navy, would take a refresher course at Pensacola, Fla. before doing a fortnight's tour of duty at General Eisenhower's headquarters in Europe. After that, said Godfrey, he would doff his commander's uniform and come back to his audience with some thoughts on world conditions...
...Navy sent him to college (Rice Institute in Houston), then to preflight school at Pensacola, Fla. In December 1948, he qualified for carrier duty. On July 31, 1950, he joined the Valley Forge at Okinawa. On Aug. 6, he flew his first combat mission. The next day, on another mission, was the first time the 22-year-old, raised under the rule of law & order and under the Ten Commandments, killed a man. In his journal, Tatum wrote later in neat block letters: "Monday, August 7. Armed Recon Southwest Korea. Up to Taejon and Seoul. Shot up 2 junks...
...flew for a while at Pensacola as an instructor, then got a two-year tour of duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington. There he first demonstrated his ability for administration and staff work, and began his long war against the battleship admirals (as late as World War II he was still cursing them in his quiet, emphatic voice). As a scout plane pilot attached to the Colorado and later the Pennsylvania, he learned what the old-time battlewagon skippers were generally like. Most of them hated the airplanes they were forced to carry, because 1) they splashed...