Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brash. Joe McCarthy proved his nerve overseas by voluntarily riding the rear seat of his squadron's dive bombers in action. His political nerve was equally great. The convention which nominated him gave him the vote with misgiving. He was almost an unknown and he was up against one of Washington's most respected legislators. McCarthy grinned and set out determined to shake every hand in Wisconsin...
...August, 1945 Bonney was appointed Deputy Commander of Service Squadron 10, the Naval logistics unit for all territory west of Hawaii, which later became known as Admiral Nimitz's "secret weapon." He held this post until his transfer to the University NROTC program was announced...
Captain Bonney, Annapolis '20, was a NROTC instructor at Yale University from 1936 to 1938, at which time he was transferred to the submarine base at New London in the capacity of executive officer. In January, 1943, he was placed in charge of Submarine Squadron 14 an remained at that post until given command of a Pacific-bound assault transport in September...
...seven when the Civil War was lost and a squadron of Union cavalry rode down a dusty road and into his home town of Lynchburg, Va. A blue-clad rider hauled him up into the saddle and asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
...identities of four other persons accused of giving secrets to the Russians: 1) Dr. Raymond Boyer, a McGill University chemistry professor who had worked on a super-explosive known as "R.D.X."; 2) Harold Samuel Gerson, a scientist who worked for the Department of Munitions & Supply; 3) R.C.A.F. Squadron Leader Matt Simons Nightingale; 4) Dr. David Shugar, who worked on anti-submarine devices while in the Canadian Navy. Five other "detainees" were still to be identified...