Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the third British light cruiser squadron and the fourth destroyer flotilla steamed for China from Malta. At Gibraltar a battalion of the Suffolk regiment prepared to embark for China on Jan. 2. Finally the womenfolk and children of British soldiers stationed in the interior of China were ordered last week to return to England. These measures, the War Office suavely explained, were designed to prevent a situation from arising in which His Majesty's Government might have to take military action in China to protect British lives and property...
...everyone knows, eight and one-half round-the-world flights or 72 trips across the Atlantic is the equivalent of 216,000 miles. This is the distance which the Torpedo and Bombing Plane Squadron No. 1 of the Navy scouting fleet has flown in less than a year without a single forced landing...
...feat was all in the year's work for the twelve planes of Squadron No. 1, commanded by Lieut. E. W. Spencer. During the winter they maneuvered far and wide about their base at Guantanamo, Cuba. In the spring they flitted back to Norfolk, Va., then six of them left in-June for summer exercises at Newport...
However, my wife is an able talker. She will be one of a flying squadron of speakers to take the stump for me during the last five weeks before election day. My good friend, Mayor Dever of Chicago, approves of Mrs. Brennan's campaign activity-and so do I. In fact, I am helping her write the speeches...
United States Fleet Base Force, Train Squadron One U.S.S. Antares, Flag Ship Navy Yard, Norfolk...