Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Retired. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, D. S. M., chairman of the executive committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant...
Though U. S. naval officers dared not comment officially on the raising of the F-14 within 34 hours, one gallant U.S. Rear-Admiral described the feat privily at Washington as "a miracle of efficiency and speed." Citizens of the U. S. were touched to learn that Captain Weil of the F-14 entered in his diary just before asphyxiation overcame him these words: "We are waiting. We hope...
with dragnet apparatus. Salvage Director arrives within 24 hours after the disaster by train and airplane from Norfolk, Va. Name: Captain Ernest J. Kind, commanding officer of the U. S. S. Wright, subordinate to Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby...
...pulls a folding seat out of the cabin ceiling, reveals a sliding hatch. Broker Hoyt mounts to the seat, opens the hatch, inserts a removable joystick in a socket between his feet. Rudder pedals are already installed in front of the folding seat. He has thus created a rear cockpit, with a full set of controls. Broker Hoyt becomes Pilot Hoyt...
...Looking back I was stunned to see the rear engine enveloped in flames, which even as I looked, stretched out like a giant blowlamp rearwards over the seat occupied by Elwood Hosmer and beyond the rudder and tail. In the darkness the whole machine must have appeared like a grotesque red comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload...