Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not dodge two others. Three bombs also hit her. Nevertheless her crew took aboard most of her planes, had three fires under control and another nearly out when an internal explosion (apparently of escaping gasoline fumes) rent the Lexington. At 5:07 p.m., her commander, Captain Frederick Carl Sherman (since promoted to Rear Admiral), gave the sailor's saddest order...
...Abandon ship!" Before they slid overside into the sea, to be picked up by destroyers and cruisers, all the men lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she fall into Jap hands or endanger other ships, a U.S. destroyer torpedoed the Lexington's flaming hulk. "That," said Admiral Sherman, "was the end of the Lexington...
Major General Sherman Miles, commanding the First Corps Area, Awarded the commissions and certificates to 68 members of Mil Sci 4 in the Fogg Art Museum Tuesday morning. The oath of office was administered by Major Morton Smith, F.A., adjutant of the Harvard Military ROTC...
First to emanate from the Army Quartermaster training program began at the Business School here a year ago, is men received letters of appointment to officerships, and nine get certificates of course completion yesterday morning from the hand of Major General Sherman Milles, commanding the First Corps Area...
Sands, E. A.; Sherman, F. J., Jr.; Shepard, D. A.; Shore, B. E.; Singer, M. B.; Skardon, W. R.; Smith, D. W.; Smith, S. O.; Spalding, I. E.; Sparks, B. S.; Stewart, J. T., Jr.; Stockbridge, H. W. C.; Stone...