Word: squadronal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...
Last week at Corinto, Nicaragua, Rear-Admiral Edward Hale Campbell, commander of the Special Service Squadron, debarked from his flagship, the U, S. S. Rochester to make a periodical inspection of U. S. forces in Nicaragua. He was met by Brigadier-General Dion Williams who commands 1,600 U. S. Marines still scattered over the little republic. Last week President Hoover informed Congress: "We are anxious to withdraw these forces as the situation warrants...
...Oglala", flagship of a mine squadron which played an important part in laying the North Sea Mine Barrage during the World War, is now in the Navy Yard, undergoing repairs to refit it for service in the U. S. Navy...
Eleven years ago today I was riding at the head of a squadron of Indian Cavalry past the ruins of an old Crusaders' fortress at Latron. The regiment was on its way to participate in what was probably the greatest mounted action in history, to drive the Turks out of Palestine...
Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant entered the Naval Academy in 1897 and served as a Midshipman in the Cuban Blockading Squadron in 1898. In 1904 he commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters...