Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy strategist, and a poor sailor as well. But he conceived his job to be that of a civilian link between the Navy and the nation, not a teacher of admirals. Mostly he bustled about, trying to instill his own brand of peppy patriotism into war workers and servicemen alike. As the Navy's most-traveled Secretary, he visited Pearl Harbor a few days after December 7, and saw Guadalcanal, England and the Mediterranean...
...only parade was American. Promptly at noon 40 full-dressed members of the U.S. military and naval missions emerged from the Embassy in the Mokhovaya, walked sheepishly back & forth and around the block for the benefit of the newsreels. Asked one little boy of a sailor: "Is this the Second Front...
...bishop's sailor son, commander of the flagship of the flotilla which blockaded the Gulf ports, died with a musket ball in his head. The bishop's hard-riding grandson commanded a cavalry squadron in the Battle of Santiago, fought alongside Douglas MacArthur's father in the Philippines, died in the insurrection...
...fighting ability of the U.S. Marines is never questioned. But sometimes soldiers and sailors are irked by the signs of conscious superiority inherent in every Marine. In Gismo (meaning "gadget"), a publication for all servicemen in the South Pacific, this pent-up irritation was let out in doggerel "believed to be by a sailor...
...Pioneer. A 24-year-old Dalmatian sailor commanded the Partisans' only warship, the fishing smack Pioneer, whose eight men were armed with four rifles. The Dalmatian told of sighting an Italian coastal convoy one day-15 vessels, strung-out over 15 miles, with a minesweeper at each end of the column. The Pioneer attacked in the middle. The captain of the attacked boat, seeing rifles, surrendered. A Partisan went aboard, ordered the prize to head for a small section of the coast which was held by Partisans. The Pioneer went after the next vessel, applied the same treatment...