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Oahu Taken. At dawn the Hawaiian attack began. Into the mist, the Saratoga and Lexington launched a swarm of planes. On Oahu the Army, whose great searchlights had fingered the sky all night, was ready. Nine thousand men from Schofield Barracks were deployed in the underbrush. Anti-aircraft guns nosed up into the morning sunlight. From Luke and Wheeler Fields, Army planes took the air to repulse the "Black" attack. The bristling guns of the Coast Artillery held the "enemy" fleet out of range at 7½ miles. Though not a shot was fired nor a bomb dropped to disturb...
...Reddy." Admiral Leigh is no naval specialist. Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, retired, who preceded him as Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, knew much more about seagoing strategy. Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed...
...Buckingham '33, B.C. Datfield '33, H.H. Hoskin '33, K.W. McMahan '33, A.K. Philbrick '35, W.H. Schofield '33, Leo Srole '33, H.A. Stone '33, E.H. Tayler '34, W.O. Thomas '35, J.S. Weld '35, H.K. Wells...
Admiral Willard's problem was to locate the main body of Admiral Leigh's command. In that he failed to do this in seven days, at which time Admiral Frank Herman Schofield. commander of the Fleet, called off hostilities, Admiral Willard "lost" the war game. But even after the tactical discussion of the affray aboard the Saratoga this week, when a report will be drafted for the Navy Department, no layman will ever know who won, who lost. The Navy prefers to consider that neither side loses or wins a maneuver, but that all hands gain experience...
...Greefield '32, R. L. Hutchinson '34, Richard Inglis, Jr. '33, A. A. Lazar '33, J. K. Mitchell, Jr. '34, JJ. L. Noyes '34, A. W. Patterson '32, Samuel Powel, Jr. '32, E. C. Pugh '33, M. McN. Roty '33, E. H. Roorbach '34, J. F. Roy '34, W. H. Schofield '33, Lawrence Sorenson '32, C. B. Sykes '33, W. C. Thompson '32, G. P. Webber '33, H. B. Wessman '34 H. R. Woodard...