Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although battleships suffered most, cruisers did not escape. The Honolulu, Helena and Raleigh were disabled. So were other vessels: the 8,100-ton repair ship Vestal, the new 8,625-ton seaplane tender Curtiss. The minelayer Oglala, with the destroyers Shaw, Cassin and Downes and the target ship Utah (a retired battleship) were reported lost in Secretary Knox's report...
...Pearl Harbor, Admiral King was on the Navy's second ocean, directing the Atlantic Fleet's undeclared war of 1941. In mid-December, when he was summoned to Washington to be COMINCH of all the fleets, "Betty" Stark was doing his limited best as OPNAV. The Utah and the Arizona gaped from their graves at Oahu, ships slightly more fortunate were being readied for removal and repair, and bombed planes still made ugly piles on the Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking away the last Army air forces in the Philippines; MacArthur was looking...
...mile West Coast strip to 16 temporary assembly centers in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona. This month he finished his seven-day-a-week job. He had placed all his charges in the care of the civilian War Relocation Authority in ten huge, permanent projects in California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas...
...Chapultepec, 1847, where Winfield Scott took Mexico City and won New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and part of Colorado from Mexico. Casualties were relatively severe...
...land Brigham Young round wasn't promising. In fact it took a good deal of imagination and a lot of irrigation to grow anything more than sagebrush in the Utah desert. But Young was a prophet who revealed God's will to his group of Saints, and they took his word as they would God's, following him across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints...