Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's traffic roar. For the first time since the War militia planes, 99 of them from 18 States, and cadets from Kelly Field, took part in regular Army formations. Main event of the first day was a contest for honor position during the maneuvers between the 95th squadron, 20th Pursuit Group (Rockwell Field), and the 36th squadron, First Pursuit Group (Selfridge Field). The California squadron, led by Captain Frank O. Hunter (War ace credited with nine planes), beat its rival under Captain Victor Strahm (War ace credited with five planes) in a smooth tactical and acrobatic operation...
...guns. No notice is taken of him till he has plundered enough to stand a good squeeze. He is fined and then allowed to begin again. "This system, carried on from Cape Delgado to Delagoa Bay, completely neutralizes all the efforts of our citizens. On the West Coast the squadron kept down slaving till the influences of civilization and Christianity spread inland. Twenty missions have been established and 20 dialects have been reduced to writing. Over 12,000 communicants sit down in various churches. And lawful commerce has increased from ?20,000 to between...
...Chamber, not outside, and it was not aimed at M. Briand's life. Hour by hour, as the day approached when the National Assembly must choose a new President of France, gruff, sleepy-eyed Br'er Briand loomed larger & larger as leading candidate. His enemies selected a shock squadron of eight orators under Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon to blast...
Sirs: The five-plane squadron which is to operate from the Akron is in the process of being organized. From the manner in which we must maneuver, both in landing and taking off-or more correctly in hooking on and releasing-I fear that we will be dubbed as a squadron, "THE BELLY BUMPERS." We are considering at present the Pilot Fish for an insignia-which if adopted, I am sure will hr.sten the above christening. In order, therefore, to prevent our being caught napping, and to lend dignity to a most undignified sobriquet, I feel that a translation printed...
When the big new cruiser Memphis arrived, the Asheville moved up to Gracias a Dios. Down the coast at Bluefields arrived the U. S. gunboat Sacramento; from Panama hurried the Rochester, flagship of the Special Service Squadron. But what U. S. citizens along the Nicaraguan coast could not understand was why these war vessels, as on former occasions of murder and insurrection, did not immediately debark their fighting forces and plunge them into the jungle to exact eye-for-an-eye justice...