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...Pike, whose permanent home address is listed as Concord, North Carolina, has been attached to two naval fight activities in the South since his graduation from Annapolis in 1935. First of the series of administrative assignments was with the Aviation Cadet Regiment at Pensacola, Florida, the navy's oldest flight training-base...
...driving from Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fla. when dusk halted me in the lovely old town of Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn...
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...clearly that she has been a tough ship, a lucky ship, a superbly handled ship, fortunate in her various commanders and in the high degree of teamwork achieved by her crew. One of her former captains is grey, smallish, soft-spoken Rear Admiral George D. Murray (now commandant at Pensacola), rated by officers who served with him as the ablest of carrier skippers...