Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Provided they survive qualifying heats this afternoon, seven Varsity track and field men will carry the Crimson banner into Madison Square Garden tonight for the 29th annual IC4A carnival. Two others will compete this afternoon in the IC4A weight throw, which will be held at the Squadron A Cavalry Armory...
...Company mess. In half an hour he was back in the squad room, policing up around his bunk, making the bed, straightening out his steel wall locker. At 7:35 there was a whistle again. Out for inspection poured Company F of the gist Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron: a scanty 54 enlisted men out of an authorized strength...
...Academy's youngest "supe" in 50 years. As a member of one of the speedup classes at Annapolis during World War I, Holloway graduated in 1918, in time to get in a few licks on a World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct demobilization of the swollen Navy, serving...
...same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa. ... In other times we'd have had a British squadron off the coast of the nation involved, and by now a division or two ashore making sure that whoever was responsible was going to pay in more ways than...
After a three year tour of duty in the Pacific, Captain Bonney assumed command of the local unit last July. He served as commanding officer of a submarine squadron for 18 months, and as deputy commander of Service Squadron 10, and he had a hand in directing the outfit known as "Nimitz' secret weapon...