Word: rosendahl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King stipulated, however, that no officer could be promoted to flag rank unless he had commanded a major fleet unit (battleship, carrier, heavy cruiser). Oddest working of this variable rule: Charles E. Rosendahl had to command a cruiser (and won the Navy Cross in battle) before he was deemed fit to be a rear admiral and commander of all the Navy's airships...
Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, inveterate lighter-than-air enthusiast, had long since won recognition and appropriations for middle-sized blimps. Last week he was happy: blimps have been "contacting the enemy," and the third Eastern blimp base was opened, at Elizabeth City...
Thrice-burnt by its disastrous experiences with the Shenandoah, .the Macon, the Akron, the U.S. Navy has dreaded lighter-than-air craft. Nevertheless, a little group of enthusiasts, led by Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, plugged persistently for a whopping airship program. The new blimp squadrons are the first reward of their efforts...
...Captain Rosendahl and his followers will not be content with blimps. They are after giant 10,000,000-cubic-feet dirigibles (half again as large as the Hindenburg], airships that will cruise at 85 knots, serve as the battleships and plane carriers...
...Captain Rosendahl did not neglect to point out that the Germans had only 140 U-boats left when they made this audacious raid. This time the Axis has better than 500, is said to have 250 more abuilding. But this time, says Rosendahl, the U.S. has its answer: airships...