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...Saratoga, 1777. General John Burgoyne tried to drive down from Canada in order to join the British commander, Howe, on the Hudson, but was so roughly handled at Bennington and in two engagements near Saratoga, that he capitulated. News of Burgoyne's surrender impressed Louis XVI of France enough to make him sign an alliance with the U.S. Within a few weeks, France and Britain were at war. Total U.S. casualties: 80 killed, 190 wounded...
...battles do not come cheaply. The destroyer Porter was lost, other ships damaged. But the real blow came when the Navy announced that another precious, unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...
...same category: COMINCH Ernest Joseph King, who became a Pensacola admiral at 49. He once commanded the Lexington, but his real love is submarines. Vice Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, who became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander of Carriers...
...this week to run for Governor. They applauded Keynoter Joe R. Hanley: "It is high time that this nation realizes that you cannot win this war with business as usual, strikes as usual, pleasures as usual and happiness as usual." Then happily, enthusiastically they turned to the pleasures of Saratoga Springs-where their convention was held-thronged its race track, filled its bars four-deep, paraded and played all through the night...
While wealthy, much-married Mrs. Margaret Emerson, mother of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, was at the Saratoga races, fire broke out in her 24-room mansion at Sands Point, L.I., reduced it to a topless shell. Saved: some family portraits, a few other art works, a set of ebony chairs...