Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, as the Bismarck and Crete demonstrated, British sea-air power becomes progressively effective as it moves away from shore. Two aircraft carriers, the brand-new Victorious and the still unsunk Ark Royal, were able to cripple the most powerful battleship in the world just before it came within danger range of land air bases in France. Conversely, the British did not dare expose vulnerable aircraft carriers, which they call "floating blocks of flats," in the confined waters of the Aegean; and ships without planes consequently took an unmerciful beating...
...when he had been a captain for five years, he qualified as a naval aviator, then had a series of air commands until he was given the new Atlantic Patrol Force last year. Characteristically, he did not fare so well on shore duty, when he was first Assistant Chief, and later Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (after famed Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett went down with the dirigible Akron...
Rear Admiral Arthur Byron ("Cookie") Cook, 59, commands an unannounced number of shore-based aircraft which patrol with the Fleet, at least two carriers (Ranger, the recently added Wasp), and perhaps a third (the Saratoga). Like his chief, he switched to air duty after more than 20 years in surface vessels, had a tour as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics...
...last week the Freetown base suddenly became more important than ever. With Dakar and Casablanca reportedly about to be turned over to the Nazis, it was Britain's-and might be the Americas'-most strategic base on the east shore of the South Atlantic. If raiding action were to come from Dakar and Casablanca, counteraction would have to come from Freetown...
...awarded to a hardy amateur for heroics during the Allegheny floods in Pennsylvania; for 1937 for similar feats during the Ohio River floods; for 1938 to a young man who kept up communications on Rhode Island's Xarragansett shore, while hurricane and tidal wave ripped past. In 1939 nobody...